topic Re: making an equilateral triangle curtain wall in Modeling

making an equilateral triangle curtain wall

Anonymous — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:59:14 GMT

Hi friends,

How do you make an equilateral triangle curtain wall like in the picture with using curtain wall settings?

Re: making an equilateral triangle curtain wall

adzik — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:05:58 GMT

Somebody please correct me if I'm mistaken, but I don't think it's possible to achieve such a construction with the Curtain wall tool.

I'd go with a combination of triangular windows from the archicad library in a regular wall or a combination of beams and columns which also should get you what you need.

Re: making an equilateral triangle curtain wall

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:57:05 GMT

Yes it seems it's not possible. I remember AC 12 splash window. May be that will be the solution. How did they do that façade?

Re: making an equilateral triangle curtain wall

Erika Epstein — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:27:55 GMT

The AC12 building was done pre-curtain wall.

Using the curtain wall you can achieve the triangulated design.
I started by creating a scheme setting the horizontal gridline repetition to the side of the isosceles triangle in this example 5'

2. The Secondary gridline repeat i set to 4'-4",the vertical height of an isosceles triangle with legs of 5'

3. I set the secondary gridline rotation I set to 30° as that sets the angle to 60° relative to horizontal.

4. In the CW editing window I then drew in the horizontal frame members

5. Deleted the vertical frames

6. Drew in the angled frames that go the other direction from the secondary ones,

7.Adjusted the Scheme boundary frame to follow the triangles.

Re: making an equilateral triangle curtain wall

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:48:31 GMT

Thank you Erika,

It's ok for the small façades but i think it's difficult to make big areas and difficult to reset the system settings again.

Anyway thanks again for your help,
And sorry for this late reply.

Re: making an equilateral triangle curtain wall

Sightline — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:37:03 GMT

What it is more challenging is that triangulated curtain walls make most sense when they shape complex geometry. Curtain wall tool does not do a very good job with free form shapes. I wonder then, what could be a good solution for these new challenges that contemporary architecture has?

Diego T.

Re: making an equilateral triangle curtain wall

TMA_80 — Mon, 07 May 2012 19:40:14 GMT

This should be posted in the wish forum; ( i mean the generation of panneling tool and more freeform shapes with the curtain wall )

This kind of improvement a logical complement to the new morph tool ( and even to the curtain wall tool )

Re: making an equilateral triangle curtain wall

rocorona — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:34:50 GMT

Erika wrote:
The AC12 building was done pre-curtain wall.

Using the curtain wall you can achieve the triangulated design.
I started by creating a scheme setting the horizontal gridline repetition to the side of the isosceles triangle in this example 5'

2. The Secondary gridline repeat i set to 4'-4",the vertical height of an isosceles triangle with legs of 5'

3. I set the secondary gridline rotation I set to 30° as that sets the angle to 60° relative to horizontal.

4. In the CW editing window I then drew in the horizontal frame members

5. Deleted the vertical frames

6. Drew in the angled frames that go the other direction from the secondary ones,

7.Adjusted the Scheme boundary frame to follow the triangles.

I think there is an easiest way.
1. set the scheme as only one "square" panel, say 1m x 1m, but with the secondary lines angled 60°
2. create the CW plane, then use the "free rotate" command, in the pet palette, so the rhomboids are aligned correctly (I think this was 30° counter-clock wise)
3. Adjust the perimeter and add only a series of horizontal frames.

Re: making an equilateral triangle curtain wall

Anonymous — Tue, 08 May 2012 21:29:19 GMT

TMA_80 wrote:
This should be posted in the wish forum; ( i mean the generation of panneling tool and more freeform shapes with the curtain wall )

This kind of improvement a logical complement to the new morph tool ( and even to the curtain wall tool )

Je, je... i think that Archicad need something like "dragon"... (the tool that I'm developing...) You can define the panel you want, and then delete panels, beams and connectors... one by one, and the geometry its almost free.

By garquitectos at 2012-05-08

By garquitectos at 2012-05-08

Re: making an equilateral triangle curtain wall

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 23:20:02 GMT

Hi, i did this custom triangle curtain wall, and i get a problem. I try to get a specific form, which with regular cw is done with no problem. With my cw each panel is kept rectangular and is not cut where it meets the border.
Any ideas to get the green part cut from the rest would be welcomed.
Thanks

Re: making an equilateral triangle curtain wall

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:46:05 GMT

If the CW won't do it SEO is presumably the way to go.

Re: making an equilateral triangle curtain wall

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 22:48:11 GMT

Thanks, that worked. Now after a few SEO, the archicad is moving slow. Is there a way like is in 3DS Max to collapse the stack, meaning all the operations done will collapse remaning just the object edited so that it will run smoothly.

Re: making an equilateral triangle curtain wall

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 05:39:12 GMT

Save as a library part. If you set it to non-editable/binary it may be a bit faster.

Be sure to keep the original stuff (on a hidden layer or something) in case you need to edit and resave the part.