topic Re: Help creating trapezoidal, inclined curtain walls... pls in Modeling

Help creating trapezoidal, inclined curtain walls... pls?

ICEdevil — Tue, 23 May 2023 15:27:55 GMT

I need to create two inclined, trapezoidal, curtain walled, facades.

problem is, i can incline curtain walls, but i cannot shape them as a trapeze, in order to properly intersect in corners. i can also use the "curtain wall inclined end", but this object cannod be inclined...

can anyone give me some tips here?
thanx

Re: Help creating trapezoidal, inclined curtain walls... pls

Anonymous — Sun, 16 May 2004 19:54:06 GMT

You may have to use roofs.
Peter Devlin

Re: Help creating trapezoidal, inclined curtain walls... pls

ICEdevil — Mon, 17 May 2004 16:50:06 GMT

hmm...could you be a little more specific pls?

Thanx
Dan

Re: Help creating trapezoidal, inclined curtain walls... pls

Anonymous — Mon, 17 May 2004 20:22:58 GMT

Dan,
This whole business with inclined elements is a pain in AC.
What I was thinking was, you could make an inclined plane
with the roof tool the shape, thickness, and inclination of the wall or building facade, make additional roofs for the other faces of the building, and miter them at the corners which is easily done with the roof tool.
Cut holes in these roofs for the curtain wall openings using
the roof tool.
Now the tedious part, make a roof the thickness and material
of the glass frame, cut holes in this roof to receive the glass.
Place the glass frame into the curtain wall opening, then make
the glass panels to go into the frame openings again with the roof tool
with the thickness and material of the glass.
If you have many framed glass panels that are the same
you can group the frame and glass assembly and drag copies.
If you have many panels that are similar you can save the
frame and glass assembly as a library part and place instances of
the library part and change dimensions as needed.
A lot of work but the elements are sufficiently controllable
to model what you want.
Regards,
Peter

Re: Help creating trapezoidal, inclined curtain walls... pls

Djordje — Tue, 18 May 2004 05:45:52 GMT

ICEdevil wrote:
I need to create two inclined, trapezoidal, curtain walled, facades.
problem is, i can incline curtain walls, but i cannot shape them as a trapeze, in order to properly intersect in corners. i can also use the "curtain wall inclined end", but this object cannod be inclined...

You can cut them with cutplanes (marquee) and resave as new objects, OR use SEOs to cut off the excess - no frames at the corner, though, in both cases, so that has to be faked with a roof or an extrude (see ArchiForma).

Another solution might be ArchiGlazing, you have to try and see.

Re: Help creating trapezoidal, inclined curtain walls... pls

Ralph Wessel — Tue, 18 May 2004 14:37:36 GMT

ICEdevil wrote:
I need to create two inclined, trapezoidal, curtain walled, facades. problem is, i can incline curtain walls, but i cannot shape them as a trapeze, in order to properly intersect in corners. i can also use the "curtain wall inclined end", but this object cannod be inclined...

FrameWright is very good for this type of exercise. The tools for free 3D rotation and working planes makes it quite easy to construct and edit. Take a look at http://www.encina.co.uk/tiltedwall.html for an example for creating the model pictured below.