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Hi all,
I'm having some problems creating a cutainwall to wrap round a drum shaped building.
Any idea how i can go about doing it???
Thanks
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Make your wall with a typical wall type - 5" or whatever, to the arc you want. Select the wall and change the type to a storefront wall
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Sorry...
Probably i didn't state it properly...I actually meant a cone-shaped curtain wall...
So id there anyway to create a cone shaped curtain wall?
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You can do it with Modelling > Create > Solid > Blend
That´s my suggestion...
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Create a 'Cone Shaped' roof using 'Revolve' command as an 'In-palce' family and convert to 'Glazed roof'. Use curtain grids and mulions to divide the panels.
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You can do it using the ruled curtain wall system tool.
Modelling--> Ruled Curtain wall.
You would then need to draw a 3d line for the lower circle and then make the upper circle smaller on a different level, unfortunately you cannot go to an exact point. Then select the ruled curtain tool, select the two lines and then start adding grids etc... You may also have to do it as two halves. I haven't actually tried it as such but it should work...
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This is my suggestion done with Solid > Blend and Void > Blend
and the mullions are just Solid > Extrudes
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Here you can see the glassing.
You can use whatever family you like.
I used Roof!!! because I could not find any family for Curtain Walls
It is one Blend with Solid
and another inside made with Void
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And here are the homemade " mullions".
First make a wall going North-South or in some other direction.
And then Modelling > Create choose some arbitrary family: Entourage???
Then...
Just do one mullion by Solid Extrude. using a side of the wall as a workplane
Mirror the first extrusion in the same family
Copy the two mullions
Rotate them
If you want more mullions just copy and rotate
Finish the family
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Here is an example of the ruled curtain wall method I suggested above.
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The ruled curtain system
suggested of Mr Spot
turned out to be so nice to me
so I had to test it myself.
The circles had to be divided a lot of times
so it was some work to do before applaying the curtains....
And you cannot use curved glass
But it is the method... Yeah! Really niice
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Mine was done with only 4 lines (2 lots of half circles). The other advantage of this method is you can easily adjust the height of the cone by adjusting the levels the lines were drawn on.
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Thanks for the tips.
It was only to use Modelling>Curtain Grid
to split the big window you got first got
then you used Ruled Curtain Systems on a part - quarter - of a circle
But I got a bug using this method ...
Have a look at the image.,..
I think it is a bug... Something is it?!.,
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