topic Re: Complex curtain wall in Modeling

Complex curtain wall

Anonymous — Thu, 25 May 2023 15:07:10 GMT

Hi, I'm trying to create a complicated curtain wall; something like the Basque Health Department facade in Bilbao. It seems to me that all Archicad's methods of creating curtains work similar to creating complex profiles: you make the profile and then extrude it to the desired length.
But I have no idea of how I could drag a node (a mullion or a scheme node) outside the curtain wall plane; this would solve the entire problem; is this possible?

P.S. I can do this with the mesh tool; I simply create a mesh and then I start dragging points vertically, higher or lower. I could replace the curtain with the mesh, but I don't know hot to rotate it to a vertical position.

Re: Complex curtain wall

Anonymous — Tue, 11 May 2010 23:39:13 GMT

A picture would help (I don't have time to Google the building you mention). The CW tool is quite flexible but still constrained. The reference line can be curved and manipulated pretty much like any polyline, as can the outline of the frame. It cannot do compound curves as far as I know though.

Re: Complex curtain wall

owen — Wed, 12 May 2010 01:26:13 GMT

Painful .. but possible

http://www.archdaily.com/7093/basque-health-department-headquarters-in-bilbao-coll-barreu-arquitectos/

mihaibala wrote:
P.S. I can do this with the mesh tool; I simply create a mesh and then I start dragging points vertically, higher or lower. I could replace the curtain with the mesh, but I don't know hot to rotate it to a vertical position.

Almost but from what I can see there are curtainwall faces which lean out of the vertical plane (overhang panels below) which cannot be done within a single mesh (a stupid limitation but ...). But you could of course split it into multiple meshes - I assume you intend to convert to solids using the mesh-to-roof tool?

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Re: Complex curtain wall

Anonymous — Wed, 12 May 2010 03:06:24 GMT

Each planar section would have to be done as a separate curtain wall but it could be done. The building in the picture would be difficult but that is kind of in its nature. There is no software I know of that could do it easily, at least beyond a sketch model.