topic Re: Align curtain wall panel material in Modeling

Align curtain wall panel material

Anonymous — Wed, 24 May 2023 06:56:37 GMT

Hello, i have two curtain walls one near the other, but the texture i've put is not on the same level i want, one is higher than the other. Is there a way to align the texture on the left to the one on the right?
I'll attach a picture with the problem.

PS. It is just one curtain wall panel with texture (not many curtain wall panels)

Thank you

Re: Align curtain wall panel material

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 20:35:32 GMT

Create it as a single Curtain Wall elements, not separate Curtain Wall elements.

Read about Curtain Wall "Boundary Editing in Section".
The Boundary of the Curtain can be freely edited. The important point is that a single Curtain Wall element's boundary can consist of more than one non-touching boundary polygons. It doesn't necessarily have to be a single polygon.
If you make it this way, the Curtain Wall frame pattern in the two polygons will align since they are both defined by the same Scheme and are part of the same Curtain Wall.

Re: Align curtain wall panel material

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:46:15 GMT

Thank you Laszlo,

I have made it two different curtain walls, because it is a rounded corner of a building which is also inclined. And i couldn't make a curved and inclined curtain wall. Or is it possible?

Is there a way to align the textures on this particular example?

Re: Align curtain wall panel material

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 18:18:30 GMT

That is correct, it is not possible to create a slanted curved Curtain Wall out of a single Curtain Wall element. You would have to create each segment.

You can move the Grid of the Curtain Wall though. Go to Edit the Curtain Wall in 3D. Hide all component in the little palette on the upper left corner and make sure the Scheme is set to visible.
Then you can click on any Grid line or Grid intersection point and in the appearing Pet Palette use the Move Grid command. Then you can specify a precise distance and angle with the Tracker. This way you should be able to align the Grid of the various Curtain Wall elements.

Re: Align curtain wall panel material

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 11:31:22 GMT

Even if i moved the grid from the scheme, the texture remains in the same place. It's not working.

Any other idea?

Re: Align curtain wall panel material

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 22:24:10 GMT

Sorry, I misunderstood you question. I thought you wanted to align the Frames.

How did you create these Curtain Wall? Somehow the downward pointing triangle shaped ones have the origin of their texture somewhere else then the upward pointing triangle shaped ones. Have you maybe rotated or mirrored them in 3D when you created them? I wonder what would happen if you copied one of the upward pointing triangle shaped Curtain Walls, then used the Bundary Editing in Section command of Curtain Walls to redefine its boundary. Would its texture align with the other Curtain Walls then?

Re: Align curtain wall panel material

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 19:34:57 GMT

I created them by using the command "redefine boundary from fill". I haven't mirrored or rotated them in 3D. I gave up for now.

Re: Align curtain wall panel material

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 20:23:07 GMT

Can you copy these Curtain Wall elements into another file (also that geometry they fit to), save it as PLA and put it op Dropbox. I might be able to take a look at it. This problem intrigues me a bit.

Re: Align curtain wall panel material

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 13:49:29 GMT

I uploaded to dropbox so you can check it out.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xvnb7vc3qt4zgr9/Curtain%20wall%20texture.pla?dl=0

Re: Align curtain wall panel material

Erwin Edel — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 14:45:01 GMT

Dirty fix to allign the textures: convert to morph. Perhaps you can keep the curtainwall and put a single surface morph on top of the panels that you would like to allign the texture of. (copy curtain wall, convert to morph, delete what you don't need etc)

The last curved facade (in more than one direction curved) I it faked with some morphs for the preliminary designs. It didn't get past this stage yet, but beyond that it would come down to actually modelling the frames and sashes in higher detail once the plan gets more 'fixed' (less changes likely to happen).

The curtainwall tool I personally find limited beyond basic designs as well. Once you get to the point of needing proper building documentation, it won't allways suffice.