What is a pattern base system?

When trying to create a pattern base system on Revit you start by creating a curtain wall pattern based family and applying them to a divided surface within the massing environment. You then create a new family and that will then be a curtain panel pattern base, you can use a template that you can modify for the different types of you would like to put on it.

Create then a basic framed panel within this environment then start to define and make a panel. Use the modelling operations, the standard in the conceptual massing environment. After this you click on the create form button to get the options. Work within the panel environment just to add a material to your structure ‘project’. Load it into the project that you are wanting to move the pattern base to then send it to your saved project. Then look at your 3D view of your original project that you initially started, then select the surface of the existing drawing then go to the properties bar and then under whatever shape you are using, you will see “family” as an option. Click on that and it will load and apply the panel on to the surface or face of your drawing.

You created a divided surface to host the panel and then within the pattern based curtain panel family template you build all the complexity for your panels and then when back in the mass environment you can propagate it along its surface. And that is how you create a pattern base system. See link attached http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF4JUcJCRH0