Curtain Wall Custom Panels – "Partial" Infill Not Working as Expected

Josh Verran — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:27:41 GMT

When using the Curtain Wall Tool with custom panels, I’ve noticed that setting "Infill when pattern is incomplete" to "Partial" doesn't actually create a partial panel. Instead, Archicad seems to shrink the full panel’s width and/or height to fit the space.

Is this the intended behaviour? Or is there another method to achieve a truly partial panel at the edges?

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runxel — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 07:12:52 GMT

I think this is just bad and misleading labeling. It never does create a true partial pattern:

Quick test with a door and "partial pattern"

Which makes sense, you wouldn't want half a door, I guess.

But this stretching happens with all the panels, even with your own ones.

I also can't think of a easy automatic solution either, since all the panels are placed one by one basically, they don't even know that there are neighbours so to speak. Each panel only knows its own size (which again, makes sense since you could have dozens of different sizes in your CW scheme). I've run with my own panels into a similar situation. I ended up creating another parameter which is the "regular" size I want it to, then the panel cross checks that with the actual current size. If that is smaller it enables a Cutplane. Rather inconvenient but I haven't found a better way yet.

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