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Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:35:24 PM | switching element type to curtain element error

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I have a window family placed right next to a curtain wall. I want to copy the window to levels above. Window will not copy and the following message apears "Switing element type to curtain element. All inserts in the element will be deleted."

 

Has anyone had this error before and found a solution?

 

Thanks very much


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Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:59:38 PM | switching element type to curtain element error

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Not enough information.  If you are copying a window (not a CW) then you would not get a CW error message.


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Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 3:27:23 PM | switching element type to curtain element error

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The only other thing I can think of is that there are curtain walls on both sides of the window on both the level I am copying from and the levels I am copying to.

If anyone can think of something please let me know. Otherwise thanks anyway.


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Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 3:49:09 PM | switching element type to curtain element error

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Ah - that is important.  Your CW on the upper level is interfering with this window and it is causing problems.  Set a referece plane in at the end of the CW where this window is and you should see the problem on the upper level.


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Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 7:55:42 AM | switching element type to curtain element error

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Thanks for your help, but I am not able to fix the problem. To clarify further what we are trying to do is place a spandrel panel curtain wall over an ICF wall construction as a rainscreen. So we want the curtain wall to cut through the brick but not the entire wall. Where we have a vision panels we want the curtain wall to cut through the entire wall.

The idea we were trying was to create a window family to replace the spandrel panels.

What we are doing now instead is seperating the brick from the ICF wall and having to manually cut out all of our vision panels. 

Before anyone mentions to try and replace the panels with a wall within the curtain wall, we tried this and found that working with the mullion families to avoid cutting the wall was too much trouble.

If someone has a solution to this problem feel free to post for future reference, but we are moving forward.

 

Thanks again.


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Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:37:03 PM | switching element type to curtain element error

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Why don't you just add openings where you want the cut in the main wall and don't join your curtain wall to the main wall?

 

Set your CW embed switch to off.



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