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Best way to model curved curtain wall

Kaj_AL
Enthusiast

Hello!

We're working on a cylindrical building with diffent radii on the different stories.

We're now at the stage where we want to model the facade in more detail, but we're a bit stumped on the best way to do this.

 

The image below is made with walls and columns. It has a nice appearance, but it's quite labor-intense. The curtain wall tool seems like the way to do it, but we can't get the corners to look nice. If we would have the exact same angle between panels all over the place we could model a profile, but since the radius is different we would get so many different frame parts it would be too confusing.

 

Any ideas on how to do this?

 

Thank you!

/Kaj

 

Kaj_AL_0-1749725677772.png

 

Operating system used: Windows 11

Archicad 24-27 SWE
Dell Precision 5560, Windows 11 Pro
11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11950H @ 2.60GHz 2.61 GHz
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Kamelite
Expert

Not sure I understand the problem, a curtain wall can be curved....

Or was that not the issue?

 

.Kamelite

Windows 10, Archicad 28

Hi!

 

Sorry, the question was unclear.

 

Maybe it's my lack of understanding of the curtain walls, but my joints look like this:

 

Kaj_AL_0-1749733748818.png

 

Archicad 24-27 SWE
Dell Precision 5560, Windows 11 Pro
11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11950H @ 2.60GHz 2.61 GHz

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