Discover the step-by-step process of adding and modifying a metal panel in a construction model. This detailed guide provides insights on adjusting panel thickness, changing material type, creating unique materials, and establishing a surface pattern for your panel.
Key Insights
- The article provides a comprehensive guide on how to add a metal panel to a construction model, starting with the selection of a panel that will be transformed into a metal panel.
- Special attention is given to the modification of panel properties such as thickness and material. For example, the metal panel's thickness is adjusted to two inches, and the material is changed from glass to aluminum.
- The article underscores the importance of creating unique materials when adding features like a surface pattern to avoid affecting other elements of the construction model that use the same material. It also discusses how to establish a surface pattern on the metal panel.
Now we're going to address the bottom panels, where we're going to add a metal panel to this one. So just like how we did it with the spandrel panel, what we'll want to do is go in and select one of the panels, and it doesn't matter which one you start, just make sure it's one that we're going to turn into a metal panel. And we'll go ahead and say 'Edit Type' and 'Duplicate' to make the new type, and we'll call that Metal Panel, and hit okay.
Now this is the Metal Panel type that we'll be modifying. And a couple things that we're going to want to address is the metal panel is not going to have a thickness of one inch, it'll actually be two inches. So I'll set that to two inches.
And then the material is certainly not going to be glass. We'll need to change that as well. So just like before, we're going to add a new material here.
And I'll check to see if we have a panel that we can use. So it'll probably be under aluminum, and doesn't look like we have one that we want to use here. And just double check didn't see it.
We'll use aluminum as the basis for our new panel. So I can right-click and duplicate that. And I'll go ahead and name this one Aluminum Panel.
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And it's important to duplicate even though you're not sure if it's being used or not. Because if I add something like a surface pattern, which we are going to do here to this, and then aluminum is being used elsewhere, like maybe for our curtain wall mullions, then that surface pattern is going to show up on those materials as well. We want to make sure that we have our own unique material for this.
And then the last thing we'll do is we'll add a surface pattern. So I'm going to make it a model pattern. So it shows up with real scale, kind of like how our brick does here.
And we're going to look for Six-Inch Parallel. And that's just going to be six-inch horizontal lines. And there's our metal panel material.
Looks like it's set up and we'll hit OK. Everything looks good here. We'll hit OK again.
And now you can see we have our Aluminum Panel. We can use either method here. I'm going to go with 'Match Type' because there's only three of them.
But MA is the keyboard shortcut for that if you're interested. And then we'll just use Tab to find the panel. And then what's great is once you've identified that you're changing a curtain panel, it's only going to allow you to select curtain panels.
And now we've got the setup for all of our curtain panels. The next thing to do will be to address our Curtain Wall Mullions.
