Explore the intricacies of modeling a complex element, like an entrance curtain wall, in a 3D digital environment. Delve into the steps to manipulate the shape and structure of the wall, adjust its location, add grid lines, and align it perfectly with other elements in the model.
Key Insights
- The modeling process starts with deleting the existing wall and redrawing it as a different type, in this case, a curtain wall one type. The height is adjusted to go up to the top of the parapet.
- After redrawing the wall, the modeler then moves to 3D view to adjust the profile of the element, changing its shape using the pick lines tool. The next step is to add grid lines and adjust their location to align with the slab.
- The last step in the process is to add horizontal lines, which are aligned to specific points on the building. This involves using the curtain grid tool and align tool to achieve precise placements.
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Now we're going to go ahead and model our entrance curtain wall. And this one is going to be a little tricky. And this one's going to be a little bit difficult to try and manipulate the storefront type because we are going to be adjusting it.
We're going to cut it by editing the profile around this volume here. And I think it'd just be too much work to try and get it to work with this storefront type. So I'm going to be very dramatic here and just delete that wall altogether, go back into level one, and I'm going to redraw it as a curtain wall one type.
So I'll just go to my wall using the keyboard shortcut W-A, change the type to curtain wall one. And then I want to make sure that the height goes all the way up to top of parapet. So I'll draw it in across here and we'll have to adjust that location to make sure it aligns with our slab, but that's no big deal.
But for right now, this is going to work for us. So the next thing I'll do is I'll go to my 3D view and I want to make sure I have the profile of the element that I'm trying to create. So you can see here, there's a little pop out there that I want to take out.
And so if I were to go to edit profile, I can actually change the shape of this just like we would with any other wall. And I can use the pick lines tool to do that. And so I'll get this bottom one as well, just using tab to alter my selections.
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And then I'll split and then trim to close it out. We should be pretty familiar with that process by now. I'll go ahead and finish the sketch.
And now we're ready to start adding our grid lines. And so when we look at this, we're going to have a grid that's going to align here at this point. And then we'll have, this is the end of our wall down here at this point.
And so that's going to really be our center line with the rest of this just kind of being a remainder piece. I'm going to go to our south elevation and then we're going to work from here. And so you can see this is the wall we're working with now.
And what we'll do is we'll start by adding some curtain grids. And so the first one I'm going to add is going to be roughly in this location here. We are going to have to adjust that a little bit, but we'll get there.
And then I'm going to add three more across. So one, two, and three. And I have no idea if those are in the right location or not, but we will get to that point because we're going to do that in our floor plan view, because I think it'll be easier to set those verticals from there.
So I'm going to jump back to level one. And you can see here's our vertical grids. And so what I could do is I could draw a dimension from here all the way to the end of my wall at this point here.
And that gives me 26, seven. So that means 13, three and a half is what I want for this dimension here. And we almost got it.
So I'll set that to 13,3.5. And it puts it in the middle at that point. And so we can look at it in 3D. And now the only thing I want now is I want this one and this one to be exactly in the middle.
And we drew them already, but if you didn't want to do math, since I am kind of forcing the issue on that a little bit here, you could delete it and then redraw it in place. And then you don't have to worry about doing any math, because I know that can be a bit daunting sometimes, be adding and subtracting feet and inches for sure. So this gives us the framework for most of our window.
And then we can go in and we can add our horizontals. And so it's pretty easy to see where we want one. We definitely want one across at this 10 foot line.
And then I'm going to put one at the level two line as well. And then we just want to kind of follow some of these lines that we have on our building. So this one here coming across.
And then we'll have this one going across at the roof line as well. This is easily accomplished by going to our south elevation. And so we're just using that curtain grid tool again.
So right here at that just below 10 foot line. If I were to set this at 10 feet, that lines us up here, but we know that's not going to give us where we want. We want to move that down half a million width, which is one and a quarter.
Then we can put one at our level two line. We can put one so that it lines up with these guys here. And so again, if you wanted to line those up, you can use the align tool to align it.
