topic Re: Custom Frame and Cap for Curtain Wall Tool in Modeling

Custom Frame and Cap for Curtain Wall Tool

fuzzytnth3 — Wed, 24 May 2023 06:51:55 GMT

I have made some custom CW Cap and Frames but they do not display either in 3d or 2d

Model View Option doesn't seem to influence how Curtain Walls are displayed so I don't think that is the issue.

The Curtain Wall Floor Plan Display when set to "Projected" the Frame and maybe the Cap disappear.

Any ideas what could be wrong?

Re: Custom Frame and Cap for Curtain Wall Tool

fuzzytnth3 — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:02:58 GMT

Some progress as I realised the slabs I had used were not set so they were sitting at 0 above FFL.

So now I can only see them in the 2d Window when I select the curtain wall and in the 3d they look rather wacky see image below

Close up view

and in 2d

Re: Custom Frame and Cap for Curtain Wall Tool

Dontknow — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 17:40:26 GMT

When I understand you correctly you want your mounting brackets to look better?
You should make them as a morph and then you can make them thicker and make them look better.

Re: Custom Frame and Cap for Curtain Wall Tool

fuzzytnth3 — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 09:03:00 GMT

Dontknow wrote:
When I understand you correctly you want your mounting brackets to look better?
You should make them as a morph and then you can make them thicker and make them look better.

Those are not brackets but they are supposed to be the Mullions and Transomes forming the Curtain Walling.

Re: Custom Frame and Cap for Curtain Wall Tool

fuzzytnth3 — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 09:09:54 GMT

Well that is weird I just took a look in 3d at the curtain wall and it is now working.

What I really think Graphisoft should include with the Curtain Wall tool is scale sensitivity the same as Doors and Windows have. It would reduce how much editing you need to do to create 1:5 or 1:10 Details.

I'm using the generic CW components but where we have Details change the Curtain Wall to use detailed Custom components which work at 1:5 scale

Re: Custom Frame and Cap for Curtain Wall Tool

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 14:27:57 GMT

I think at this moment there is a practical limit to how detailed models can be or should be. With Curtain Wall Frames/Caps this detailed imagine how many polygons you will have when you have a Project with dozens or these Curtain Walls, each with hundreds of frames. It can easily cause the Curtain Walls to have hundreds of thousands of polygons in 3D.
In our practice I normally would not model beyond 1:50 scale, anything more detailed than that usually exist only in details in 2D form.

Re: Custom Frame and Cap for Curtain Wall Tool

fuzzytnth3 — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 14:37:04 GMT

Fair enough. We are going to use 2d objects in the 1:5 Details and Trace Ref the live 3d Section just means we need to delete the less detailed CW when putting the detail together