Curtain wall common frame

[Anonymous]

Is there some bug with the Curtain Wall common frame in AC 13? It doesn't work for me. Im running AC13 with hotfix 3600.

[Laszlo Nagy]

What is the exact problem?
Can you attach a screenshot about it?

[Anonymous]

@laszlonagy

When I used the create common frame it maintains the old frames along with a new vertical (why not angled at 45 degrees) frame.

[Laszlo Nagy]

There is a command: Design\Modify Curtain Wall\Create Common Frame.
You need to select the two Curtain Walls and then use this command.
Check the help file for more instructions.

But there is something wrong here: it does not create it for me.
I do the simplest thing and it does not create it.
A bug?

The other option is to use the polyline creation method when you place the two Curtain Wall segments so the corner will automatically be correctly created.

[Anonymous]

@laszlonagy

That is exactly what I was doing Selecting both walls and then pressing Create common frame. You are right, the best solution is to use the polyline curtain wall. But that is not the point. When one thinks that in AC 12 the Create Common Frame worked perfectly, why not in AC13?

[Laszlo Nagy]

I figured out what the problem was:
The End points of the Glass Plane must meet, not the End points of the Reference Planes. See The attached image.

What confused me is that in AC12 the end points of the Reference Plane did not have selection dots. In AC13 there are, so each Curtain Wall segment has two sets of selection hotspots.

Also: when the Common Frame is created, the firstly selected Curtain Wall's boundary frame will become the Common Frame, and the other Curtain Wall's boundary frame will become invisible.

[Ernest Atanasiu]

I will revive this thread instead of making a new one.

this time in AC19, since the curtain wall tool has't changed since, anyway.

what if you have 2 angled curtain walls? How do I match the end points of the glass panes since there are no snap points available?

I am trying to model inside a "bounding box" which has no vertical walls. I succedeed to model the faces but in plan view I cannot connect the adjacent wall with a Common Frame without getting 2 frames.

thank you.

[Ernest Atanasiu]

see pic