topic Re: Curtasin Wall Radiused Top in Modeling

Curtasin Wall Radiused Top

Anonymous — Wed, 24 May 2023 10:51:14 GMT

I am trying to get a Curtain wall to fit uder a barrel vault which requires a true radiused top. What I am getting is a segmented top as shown in attached pic. Is it possible? It seems to be shown as possible in the documentation (Although they show a reverse radius in the help example).

Thanks Darrin
Release 16

Re: Curtasin Wall Radiused Top

Aaron Bourgoin — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:46:30 GMT

Hey Darrin,

Try adjusting the Magic Wand settings from the options menu.

Re: Curtasin Wall Radiused Top

Dwight — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:14:02 GMT

You are trying for curved framing members, perhaps?

Re: Curtasin Wall Radiused Top

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:21:33 GMT

Yes I am trying for a curved BOUNDARY (or top mullion) to the curtain wall. Is this possible?

Re: Curtasin Wall Radiused Top

Laszlo Nagy — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:53:09 GMT

The boundary of a Curtain Wall may consist of only straight segments so you will not be able to put a curved segment there with Curtain Walls.
One solution would be to create a scheme for the curtain wall that has a frame every 100 or 200 millimeter or something. Then the segmentation will be high enough to approximate your curve.
Of course in that case you will have to delete a lot of frames that get generated but that is not a hard task considering that you can select rows and columns of frames and delete them in one step.

Re: Curtasin Wall Radiused Top

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:45:55 GMT

The simplest approach would be to make the curved top frame with the morph tool, extend the curtain wall past the top and subtract up with a solid operation.