To Place a curtain wall
- Select the Curtain Wall tool. The Place Curtain Wall properties panel and the contextual Placement ribbon tab appear with default settings.
- Set the Place By option and the justification and offsets for the curtain wall in the Placement options of the Placement ribbon tab. Similarly, set the types for curtain wall, frame, and panel and associated properties in the Properties panel.
- Define the data points; first and end points for a Line type, center or edge for Arc types, or select existing element for from Element/Shape place by type. Continue to place additional curtain walls, as series of windows or Reset to stop.
The curtain wall of
selected settings can be placed to the desired run, as you drag the next data
point. The entire mullions are thus placed continuous. Using the grip handle at
the frame corner, you can drag the curtain wall to extend the length and angle
of placement.
Custom shaped curtain walls
The curtain wall tool allow you to define a non-rectangular curtain wall by drawings its outline of a planar shape in elevation view and add operable panels, such as doors and louvers, to your curtain wall. Meaning, you can place a curtain wall other than default rectangular shapes. To do this, follow the steps below:
- Draw a desired shape using the Place Shape tool in your drawing that needs to be filled as a curtain wall.
- Set the Place By option to From Shape.
- In response to identify element, select the shape in the view.
- Accept the data point.
The curtain wall overlays to the selected shape.
The shape outline remains if you had deselect Delete Path option.
Important: Irrespective
of the shape, the curtain wall system generates panels that fulfill the odd
nature of the outline. Internally the system follows the checks; where
extraneous panels are generated from nonconvex shape. Any missing panel caused
by concave corner offset chain gap is restored, in turn caused by too tight of
a rangebox for extensions. Then the rangebox is extended by a tad more than max
offset distance to allow for constructing concave corner offset chains that
partially lie outside the region.