This series of videos will take you through the process of creating a user-defined node type for a curtainwall panel that will allow you to model a curtain wall system that responds to the base geometry and moves and adjusts to changes to that base geometry.

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1: Modeling a Crossbar Panel In this first video Mary Chib will show how to generate the geometry for the crossbar curtain wall panel using a non-planar polygon as the single input for all downstream geometry.

https://youtu.be/ZN3_n-sEiDI

https://youtu.be/32x1IsR4Afo

2: Creating a User Defined Node Type Now you will learn how to create a user defined Node Type with the correct Input Properties and Output Properties.

3: Placing a User Defined Node Type In this next video you will learn to place the user defined Crossbar node using the input properties defined when the node was created.

https://youtu.be/CJA77R-c4EY

Parent topic: Getting Started with Computational Design