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Deleting section of a curtain wall

gedzior84
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Back to the curtain wall...

Does anyone know how could I break the segment of a curtain wall? Would like to get rid of the section marked with the red arrow. The whole curtain wall is a closed polygonal shape - that is how it was created a long time ago, and now I want to break this shape.
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Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
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Unfortunately, the Split command does not seem to work on Curtain Walls.
So, I would create a copy of it, then modify the Reference Lines of the two instances so, in the first instance, only segments of the Reference Line BEFORE the to-be-removed segment remain, while in the second instance, only segments of the Reference Line AFTER the to-be-removed segment remain.
(The way you remove the last segment is you drag the last Node onto the next-to-last Node, then continue until all unneeded segments are removed.)
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runxel
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There is a special command for splitting CWs.
A bit dumb, but at least it's possible.
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gedzior84
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runxel wrote:
There is a special command for splitting CWs.
A bit dumb, but at least it's possible.
Unfortunately this option doesn't work very well for me.
Generally it doesn't work at all 😉
gedzior84
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LaszloNagy wrote:
So, I would create a copy of it, then modify the Reference Lines of the two instances so, in the first instance, only segments of the Reference Line BEFORE the to-be-removed segment remain, while in the second instance, only segments of the Reference Line AFTER the to-be-removed segment remain.
Oh - I get your workflow. I think it would work fine for me! Thank you LaszloNagy!