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Curtain Wall Tool Dumb Question but...

fuzzytnth3 — Fri, 26 May 2023 12:34:19 GMT

When drawing Curtain walling using the CW Tool does it replace a wall?

Or do you draw a wall with an empty window in it, which you then draw the Curtain Walling inside of?

In the case of my building the curtain walling goes from Ground Floor to First but not quite reaching the Second floor so I need a bit of "wall" above my curtain walling, hence my question.

Re: Curtain Wall Tool Dumb Question but...

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 15:43:56 GMT

When I had such a scenario I did what you wrote:
Placed and empty window into the Wall and then placed the Curtain Wall there.

Re: Curtain Wall Tool Dumb Question but...

fuzzytnth3 — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:12:17 GMT

Cool so I'm not crazy

It's the first time I've really tried to use the Curtain Walling tool it has taken a bit of head scratching plus watching tuts on Youtube, plus reading the manual to suss most of it out.

Things I like are...
In the Design Menu you can redefine a CW by extracting a fill of it and then editing the fill shape to the one you want and then apply that shape to the CW

Things I don't like....
If you do what I said above and your CW wraps around four sides of the building then even although I only wanted to apply a sloping ground plane to one elevation AC did it to the opposite one as well! I then had to redraw the curtain walling as two separate segments but then that messes up the junction between the two for which as yet I haven't found a solution.

I wish you could edit the mullion positions in the Plan, Section or Elevation windows but I guess other folks have come up with that one already cos its bleedin obvious in't?

Re: Curtain Wall Tool Dumb Question but...

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:37:41 GMT

fuzzytnth3 wrote:
I then had to redraw the curtain walling as two separate segments but then that messes up the junction between the two for which as yet I haven't found a solution.

If I understand this correctly then:
You can select two Curtain Walls that have a common node on the Floor Plan e.g. and use the Design\Modify Curtain Wall\Create Common Frames command.

Re: Curtain Wall Tool Dumb Question but...

fuzzytnth3 — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:45:18 GMT

Thanks for that I hadn't spotted that command but it isn't working for me sadly

I'm not sure if this is because the reference line is 350mm offset from the external face of the Curatin Walling?

Re: Curtain Wall Tool Dumb Question but...

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:47:57 GMT

Can you show some screenshots of the exact situation.
Both 2D and 3D would be helpful.

Re: Curtain Wall Tool Dumb Question but...

fuzzytnth3 — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:54:43 GMT

Nae worries. Got it to work.

I reset the reference line back to zero made sure the two curtain walls end nodes met exactly and then did the "Create Common Frames" menu item. All now looking the way I wanted it.

Here are some screenshots of the things I tweaked

Re: Curtain Wall Tool Dumb Question but...

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 18:32:38 GMT

Yep, that's the way to do it.