Learn how to seamlessly manipulate elements in a floor plan view and avoid errors while copying. This guide also explains how to use the mirror pick axis tool, set up mullions, and edit profiles to create a corner condition in your curtain wall.
Key Insights
- The tutorial explains how to move elements in a floor plan view easier than in 3D. The author advises using the selection window to grab all the elements hosted together in order to avoid repeated warnings and errors while copying.
- The author elaborates on the use of type properties for curtain walls to automatically embed elements, preventing errors during copying. The mirror pick axis tool is demonstrated as a useful feature for duplicating elements in the floor plan.
- The guide further provides insights on a unique corner condition creation in the curtain wall. This involves drawing reference planes, adding grids, editing profiles, and setting up mullions to achieve the desired result.
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I'm going to jump back to level two because it's easier to move these things around in the floor plan view than in 3D. But essentially what I could do is I could take this window, and when I say window, what I'm referring to is the ability to select it at that point, which will grab all of the elements that are hosted to it together. And if I were to copy it from one reference plane here to the next, you can see I'm going to get that same warning that we have.
And so what I want to do is instead of dealing with that every single time, I'm going to go into my type properties for the curtain wall, and I'm actually going to tell it to automatically embed. When I do that, it'll automatically embed, and as I copy these through, I won't have to worry about them continuously giving me that error and then having to go through and cut or join geometry to get them to fit in there. So with these two selected, I could either copy from gridline to gridline, or I could use my mirror pick axis tool and mirror them across into the next bay.
And I'll do the same thing into this bay here, and what we want at this corner is for them to join. And so what I'll do is I'll take both of these here, and then I'm going to mirror from this intersection using the mirror pick axis tool or mirror draw axis tool, and I'll go at 45 degrees from this intersection, this grid intersection here, and that'll give me the condition that we're looking for here. And what I'll need to do is just make sure I have everything set up in the right location.
So I'll do a quick dimension to make sure everything looks good. So that looks good there and there, and then I'm going to trim extend to this corner. And so the next thing we'll do is don't need these dimensions anymore, but what I will do is I'll draw in a reference plane that's two feet from the gridline, and that's going to be where I'm going to have a mullion.
And so I could set that one in. I can mirror my reference plane so we don't have to draw another one, and that gives me the two corner points. And then I can go to my architecture tab, curtain grid, and then I can add those grids in place.
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And so if we look at it in 3D, you can see we've got our corner condition created. That will require a little bit of editing, just like we did before with the edit profile, but we're one step closer to that. So I'm going to do the edit profile to clean up the corner.
And again, this is just using that pick lines tool to pick the points on the curtain wall that I want to use as references, and then using a combination of split and trim extend a corner to clean up that corner there. And then I'll finish the sketch. Now we have a condition where the curtain wall is going to meet at the corner, and then we just have a couple mullions that need to be added.
And so in this case, I'll just do the gridline segment because everything else is already set up. And then I can delete this corner one. This one doesn't have to be unpinned because of how it was created.
We didn't use the storefront type that automatically created mullions for us. So I can go in and create the mullion for the five by five for the corner and have that all set up. I'll go back to level two to make sure everything joined correctly here.
And it looks like it did. And so I'm just going to trim it, make sure we're good. And then we'll address the C to D and A, B, C and D curtain walls and get those ones set up.
