Discover how to add a door in a curtain grid architecture design, including necessary adjustments for mullion width, panel width, and elevation. Learn how to maneuver through unexpected changes and fine-tune your design for an accurate representation of your architectural vision.
Key Insights:
- The process of adding a door starts with adding a curtain grid in the architecture design. The mullion width needs to be accurately calculated, which in this case stands at 2.5 inches plus 0.5 inch.
- Adjustments need to be made for the height of the panel, which involves deleting the sill mullion and reorienting the door type. An additional curtain grid needs to be added for the header, ensuring it's at the correct elevation.
- It's important to keep track of minor changes that occur when adjusting the curtain wall, such as the modification of the corner mullion. These changes can affect the overall design and need to be corrected by replacing or deleting mullions and adjusting their dimensions.
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Now we're going to add a door at this location here next to grid line five. And the first thing that I'll do is add my curtain grid. So I'll go to architecture, curtain grid, and this is going to be a mullion width, which is two and a half inches plus one-half inch.
So that's going to be three and three-quarters. If I go in here, I can add it, and you can see that's three feet and some change there. If I make it three feet 3.75 inches, which is the 1.25 plus the 1.5, that will give me the dimension I need to make this panel exactly three feet wide.
You can see that the height right now is nine feet seven inches, which we definitely don't want. So I'm going to go ahead and delete that sill mullion. And then I can go in.
And since we know what door we're going to use, I can change this type, and then I can flip it to the right orientation. Now, that doesn't mean we're done yet because we do have to put that header in. And that means we need to add one more curtain grid here.
So I'll go back to the architecture tab and curtain grid, and then make sure I'm on the one segment option here. And then I can add it at the right elevation. And as we know, that's going to be the eight feet one and one-quarter inches.
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So I'm clicking here, you can see it's a little off. So I need to zoom out and find my temporary dimension. And so I'll set that to eight feet one and one-quarter inches.
And that puts us at the right elevation. Now I'll go in and replace this type because we split the door. So just put the door on both sides.
And I'm just going to use the match type option, you know, the MA on your keyboard shortcuts, and then assign this one. You can also just select it and change it back to the glass type. Now, when we made that change, you can see it moved our corner mullion, and it actually went in and replaced it with a two and a half by five. So I'll go ahead and unpin that, delete it, and then I can go ahead and put the right type in.
And so I want to make sure—and I'm going to do this from the 3D view because it's easier to see—but I need to make sure that there's not another two and a half by five in there. It was hard to tell from that angle. And I can go in here.
And now I can add the rest of my five by five quad corner by using 'Create Similar' to place it. And there's our door, which it moved after making that little change. And these are just some of the things you'll run into when using this type of curtain wall, as it switches between different preset types.
We have the glass and the mullion types preset. And sometimes, as things move around, you'll notice small odd changes. And so you just have to stay on top of it and make sure you're checking it to take full advantage of the benefit of having it create the mullion spacing for you.
Our next step is going to be to tackle this entrance storefront.
