Creating Storefronts for Conference Room Design: Drawing, Adjusting, and Refining Walls and Openings

Now I'm going to go ahead and draw in the Storefronts for this Conference Room at the top here. And to do that, I need to jump in and make a correction here on my wall extents, because you can see it was chopping my column there. And we're going to have two Storefronts.

So there's going to be one that goes from column to wall and from wall to column here. We can start out by getting those drawn in. And one thing you'll notice is as I'm not using the dimensions anymore, I haven't removed these ones yet, but as we're not using the ones we don't want, we're clearing them out as we go.

So I'll go ahead and, using that same interior Storefront type that we were using before, I'll go ahead and draw from, like I said, from wall to wall, or from column to wall. And then I'll do it again from the face of this wall to the face of the column here. And next thing I need to do is adjust some of these verticals, because that's way too many for that.

And so probably just two there. And I can check my dimensions to see if it makes sense to put a door in any of these, you know, with small adjustments. And that's really close to three feet.

And so what we could do is we can make that adjustment to this one grid. And so I'll add my guidelines here—my three feet—and then I'll give it the one and a quarter. And that's where I want this one to sit in here.

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If I were to select that Curtain Grid and unpin it, I can then go in and align these ones. And then if I want this one to sit equally in here, then I can place that in the middle of these two here. And when I look at the dimension, they are very close to each other.

So I think I'm just going to go ahead and leave it as is. In this case, I'm going to do the same process where I delete the sill and then unpin the panel and swap it out to the Single Glass door type. And so the door could have been here or here.

That's totally up to you. That one's going to go there. And then for the other Conference Room, I'm going to put it on the opposite side against the column as well, because you can put like a console table or something there.

So same process as before. When I look at the division of these, they look about the same. And so if I check this dimension, it's a little wide.

So it's three feet seven and three-quarters. That's going to be too much. And so there are two different things I could do here.

I could take this line here and I can offset that down three feet. And then I can use this as my door opening and then just have this be wall on the face here. And so if I move that line to that point, you can see it gives us where we have the wall added.

But one thing to keep in mind is because we have a Curtain Wall that's going to divide automatically based on the number of verticals we have, we have to keep in mind that that isn't necessarily going to give us the door we want. And so that method is one way to do it. The other way is we can have a small sidelight, or we just make an adjustment to either side of the wall.

But you do have to keep in mind that that division of vertical mullions is based upon the overall length. And so if I have, say, four, five, or six, you know, it's going to just adjust them automatically. And so if I were to just go to five, we might be close here.

And that gives us actually the same division that we had above up top, which is nice because then we have the same look going down vertically here. And so I'll go ahead and do the same process that we were doing before with the unpin and then the changing of types. And we end up with our two Conference Rooms that now have doors set up exactly the way we want.

And we've got one more Conference Room to do here, and that's the one down in the corner. And we'll go ahead and use the same process. We're going to have a door on this wall, and then we're just going to have a window kind of centered on this wall here.

So what I'll do is this one is going to be that Storefront all the way across, and so I'll take it from here to the face of the wall. And four divisions is way too much, so we'll go ahead and reduce that down to two. And then I can make this one our door, which gives us a little bit of a big door here, but it shouldn't be too bad.

Three feet four—it’s just nice and luxurious at that point. Now we've got this one, and then we can put one more across here. And these don't always have to go all the way to the ground, too.

It's always an option to have these be above, or if you wanted to enter in more grids. We've done a ton of Curtain Wall in this class, and the principles are all the same. So what I'm going to do here is I'm going to draw a guideline at this grid here, and then I'm going to use my Mirror tools here.

So I can use Mirror Draw Axis, and I'll pick that line that we drew right here, and I'll just pick the Centerline of the wall and draw it across. And now I have a guideline here, and a guideline here. And so I can use the same Storefront type and draw this one in from line to line, and then make adjustments to my division type so that it doesn't look so tight there.

And now we've got all of the hard walls—or almost all of the hard walls—that we're going to do for this tenant layout.