topic Re: Custom curtain wall panel scaling in Modeling

Custom curtain wall panel scaling

martinij — Tue, 09 May 2023 13:45:20 GMT

Hello!
I'm working with making a custom curtain wall panel in ArchiCAD 24. The process of making the panel is no problem. As shown in the attachment I have a 1000x1000 panel with a x on it.

When I make a curtain wall with 1000x1000 grid and the custom panel everything looks fine as long as there is a full panel in the pattern. At the ends I only have 500 in this example. What happens then is that ArchiCAD scales the custom panel to fit in the 1000x500 square.

The question:
Is there any way I can make ArchiCAD not scale but cut the panel to fit the grid? The result should then display a half x instead of a scaled x.

Re: Custom curtain wall panel scaling

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 16:54:11 GMT

I think it is possible, but you would have to open and edit the 3D script of the custom Curtain Wall panel to achieve it.

Re: Custom curtain wall panel scaling

martinij — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 08:20:07 GMT

That does not sound to scary. I've been looking around in GDL object before but have not that much experience that I can figure it out on my own. Any clues or ideas on how/where in the object I can find the solution?

EDIT:
I've posted in the GDL/Library part development part of the forum and asked for assistance there as well.