Curtain Wall Edit Handles

Curtain walls provide several contextual edit handles and mini toolbars, based on the active sub-element of a curtain wall. Edit handles on frames, mullions and panels each have intrinsic functions that when used together, manipulate curtain wall systems.

Curtain Wall elements can be selected as a whole assembly or individually. Depending on where you click when selecting, curtain wall sub-elements contain edit handles. For example, when the pointer hovers over a mullion, it displays the mullion edit handles. Curtain wall sub-elements have different types of edit handles. Where mullions have edit handles at corners, intersections and midpoints, the default set of edit handles for curtain wall panels consists of five individual edit handles (four at the corners, and one at the center of the panel).

Each edit handle opens a mini toolbar with tools specific to the selected sub-element. You can easily move, copy, mirror, show/hide or change the properties of sub-elements after the initial curtain wall placement. The tools within each mini toolbar vary for edit handles at intersections, at the edge or corner of the curtain wall.

The grip handles have several specific actions without selecting any tools from a mini toolbar. The default behaviors are:

Edit Handle	Action
Mullion Center Point	Moves the mullion. Restricted to internal mullions. Mullions on the outside edge of the curtain wall can not be moved this way. Internal mullions can only be moved within the confines of the adjacent curtain wall panels. You can not move a mullion past another one.
Panel Center Point	Toggles between showing/hiding the panel.
Panel Flip Handle	Flips the panel side to side (vertical mirror axis). If the panel is a door, changes the hinge side (and consequent strike side) from side to side.
Panel Flip Direction	Flips the panel from the inside to outside (curtain wall base line is mirror axis). If the panel is a door, changes the direction that a door swings open (inward versus outward).

Curtain Wall Mini Toolbars

Mini toolbar tools are dependent on the edit handle in focus; the center edit handle for a selected panel activates four tools, whereas rest of the edit handles on sides, and including the middle edit handle for selected mullion segment provide an additional set of tools:

Setting	Description
Toggle Visibility	Hides the selected panel or mullion making it invisible. Using it on a panel creates a clear opening. When toggled off, the icon turns to .
Toggle Line Visibility	Hides an entire line of mullions, based on the one you select. When toggled off, the icon turns to .
Toggle Base Curve Visibility	Makes the base line, curve/arc the curtain wall is drawn from visible, and selectable in order to manipulate it.
Delete	Removes the selected mullion. Restricted to internal mullions. Mullions on the outside edge of the curtain wall can not be deleted this way.
Delete Line	Removes an entire line of mullions (row or column, depending upon what segment is selected). Restricted to internal mullions. Mullions on the outside edge of the curtain wall can not be deleted this way.
Move	Moves the selected mullion panel to the data point defined on other segment of curtain wall.
Copy	Copies the selected mullion panel to the data point at destination dividing the mullion panels.
Move Line	Moves the entire line of selected mullion panel to the data point defined on other segment of curtain wall.
Copy Line	Copies the entire line of selected mullion panel to the data point defined on other segment of curtain wall.
Properties	Opens the Modify Curtain Wall Sub Element dialog for selected panel or selected mullion. Based on context of grip handle, the Modify dialog displays the properties for catalog type Panel or Frame respectively.
Select Linear Panels	Allows selecting multiple linear panels, by keeping the <Ctrl> key pressed, in successive rows or columns. Pressing <Shift> before selecting the panel range toggles the selection target between columns or rows.
Flip Orientation	Flips the orientation of the selected curtain wall. Used to control whether the curtain wall you are placing to be facing inside the building or outside the building.
Move Axes	Moves the mullion axes on curtain wall. The whole assembly of panels (within frame) moves in the direction of movement; both along vertical and lateral axes. The panels in the new pattern readjust their sizes and number within the frame boundary.

Note: Mini toolbar tools are also located on the ribbon (Modify > Modify Selected tab).

Mullion Mini Toolbars

Mini toolbars for manipulating mullion joints, corners and ends appear when you position the pointer over the mullion edit handles. Mini toolbars have differing options depending upon how the mullion is constructed. For instance, the mini toolbar activated for edit handles at mullion intersections has 12 manipulating tools. Corners and outside mullions have fewer mini toolbar tools.

Intersection mullion joining options
Original
, Butt Through (2)
, , , Miter Left (4)
, , , Miter Butt (4)
Miter All

Intersection conditions of a mullion and how it is joined to other mullions.

Edge mullion joining options
Original
Butt Through
Butt To
Butt Left
Butt Right
Miter Left
Miter Right
Miter All

Edge conditions of a mullion and how it is joined to other mullions.

Corner mullion joining options
Original
Butt Through
Butt To
Miter

Corner conditions of a mullion and how it is joined to other mullions.