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Working with Curtain Walls: Overview

The Curtain Wall is a single element consisting of Frame, Panel, Accessory and Junction components: these are the Members of the Curtain Wall, arranged on a Base Surface according to a pre-defined and editable Scheme. The Base Surface can be planar or spherical; other curves are not ...

Working with Curtain Walls: Overview

The Curtain Wall is a single element consisting of Frame, Panel, Accessory and Junction components: these are the Members of the Curtain Wall, ...

Curtain Wall Accessories

A Curtain Wall Accessory is an optional non-load-bearing member - such as a sun shade, a decoration strip or a canopy - attached to the Curtain Wall at any Frame. In ARCHICAD, accessories can be placed one by one, in Curtain Wall Edit mode only, using the Accessory Tool. An Accessory can be ...

Create a Chain of Walls

A chained wall is a sequence of connected straight or curved wall elements. With the Wall Tool selected, choose the Chained Wall method from the ...

How to modify the Side Contour of a Wall

Walls in ArchiCAD by default have a uniform height along the whole element. By trimming Walls with Roofs or using Solid Element Operations (SEOs) with the Wall as target and Roofs/Beams/Slabs etc. as Operators, the contours of Walls can again be modified…

Create Grid Pattern Graphically

Use this workflow to graphically create a custom Curtain Wall grid pattern, in the 3D or Section-type window (using Edit mode). Note: Another approach is to predefine the pattern in Curtain Wall Scheme Settings before placing the Curtain Wall. See Set up Grid Pattern in Scheme Settings. ...

Curtain Wall Panels

Panels are the flat surfaces - generally glazed - of the Curtain Wall. Panels are automatically placed between Frames and onto the Base Surface. A Curtain Wall has two predefined classes of panels, Main and Distinct. However, you can add more Panel classes as needed: see Curtain Wall Panel ...

Anchor Reveal

Anchor the Door/Window reveal to either the Wall face or the Wall core (the closest core skin, if there are several core skins). This is relevant if you are using a composite Wall which has a core.   You may wish to anchor openings to the Wall core if •you later make changes ...

Create a Straight Wall

The Single Straight Wall method produces one straight wall element at a time. With the Wall Tool selected, choose the Straight Wall ...