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Curtasin Wall Radiused Top

Anonymous
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I am trying to get a Curtain wall to fit uder a barrel vault which requires a true radiused top. What I am getting is a segmented top as shown in attached pic. Is it possible? It seems to be shown as possible in the documentation (Although they show a reverse radius in the help example).

Thanks Darrin
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Aaron Bourgoin
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Hey Darrin,

Try adjusting the Magic Wand settings from the options menu.
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Dwight
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You are trying for curved framing members, perhaps?
Dwight Atkinson
Anonymous
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Yes I am trying for a curved BOUNDARY (or top mullion) to the curtain wall. Is this possible?
Laszlo Nagy
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The boundary of a Curtain Wall may consist of only straight segments so you will not be able to put a curved segment there with Curtain Walls.
One solution would be to create a scheme for the curtain wall that has a frame every 100 or 200 millimeter or something. Then the segmentation will be high enough to approximate your curve.
Of course in that case you will have to delete a lot of frames that get generated but that is not a hard task considering that you can select rows and columns of frames and delete them in one step.
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Anonymous
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The simplest approach would be to make the curved top frame with the morph tool, extend the curtain wall past the top and subtract up with a solid operation.

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