making an equilateral triangle curtain wall
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2010-08-08 04:59 PM
How do you make an equilateral triangle curtain wall like in the picture with using curtain wall settings?

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2010-08-09 11:05 AM
I'd go with a combination of triangular windows from the archicad library in a regular wall or a combination of beams and columns which also should get you what you need.
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2010-08-09 12:57 PM

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2010-08-09 02:27 PM
Using the curtain wall you can achieve the triangulated design.
I started by creating a scheme setting the horizontal gridline repetition to the side of the isosceles triangle in this example 5'
2. The Secondary gridline repeat i set to 4'-4",the vertical height of an isosceles triangle with legs of 5'
3. I set the secondary gridline rotation I set to 30° as that sets the angle to 60° relative to horizontal.
4. In the CW editing window I then drew in the horizontal frame members
5. Deleted the vertical frames
6. Drew in the angled frames that go the other direction from the secondary ones,
7.Adjusted the Scheme boundary frame to follow the triangles.
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2010-08-18 04:48 PM
It's ok for the small façades but i think it's difficult to make big areas and difficult to reset the system settings again.
Anyway thanks again for your help,
And sorry for this late reply.

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2012-05-07 05:37 PM
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2012-05-07 09:40 PM
This kind of improvement a logical complement to the new morph tool ( and even to the curtain wall tool )

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2012-05-08 10:34 PM
Erika wrote:
The AC12 building was done pre-curtain wall.
Using the curtain wall you can achieve the triangulated design.
I started by creating a scheme setting the horizontal gridline repetition to the side of the isosceles triangle in this example 5'
2. The Secondary gridline repeat i set to 4'-4",the vertical height of an isosceles triangle with legs of 5'
3. I set the secondary gridline rotation I set to 30° as that sets the angle to 60° relative to horizontal.
4. In the CW editing window I then drew in the horizontal frame members
5. Deleted the vertical frames
6. Drew in the angled frames that go the other direction from the secondary ones,
7.Adjusted the Scheme boundary frame to follow the triangles.
I think there is an easiest way.
1. set the scheme as only one "square" panel, say 1m x 1m, but with the secondary lines angled 60°
2. create the CW plane, then use the "free rotate" command, in the pet palette, so the rhomboids are aligned correctly (I think this was 30° counter-clock wise)
3. Adjust the perimeter and add only a series of horizontal frames.
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2012-05-08 11:29 PM
TMA_80 wrote:Je, je... i think that Archicad need something like "dragon"... (the tool that I'm developing...) You can define the panel you want, and then delete panels, beams and connectors... one by one, and the geometry its almost free.
This should be posted in the wish forum; ( i mean the generation of panneling tool and more freeform shapes with the curtain wall )
This kind of improvement a logical complement to the new morph tool ( and even to the curtain wall tool )

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2013-04-07 01:20 AM
Any ideas to get the green part cut from the rest would be welcomed.
Thanks
