Curve/round curtain wall on the top view from elevation

Dear Bentley,

Kindly assist us which curtain wall tool to be used to develop the curve/round curtain wall on the top view from elevation as per attached image:

regards,

Conny 

  • Hello Conny,
    There are no delivered round or arched top curtainwalls delivered with AECOsim, but you could create one using the tools in PC Studio as per the PC Studio Reference Guide:
    R - Radius: Create an arc segment by specifying the radius of the arc.
    This option creates an arc that is defined by the direction of the chord between the vertices at its start and end points, and the radius is derived from a combination of the length of the chord and the included angle of the arc. This provides a more convenient dimension inference for editing. During creation, the left/right arrow keys ï ð are used to adjust the arc's included angle to the desired value. The value of the angle will step up or down by the current Angle Snap value.

  • This can be hard or difficult
    The easiest way is to draw the elevation and extrude the entire thing. Then use fence stretch as needed.
    You can still add Data to this if needed

    Teh second is to build the vertical and horizontal framing as small walls. A wall might be 60' tall 8" depp and 2" thick.
    Then draw the wall(arc) in the front fiew with the acs off. then you still have some of your parametrics. The arc however will be screwed up as height may now be depth and width thickness and top and bottom your depth.

    You can quantify this easily.

    Now if you want to get very specifig PCS
    Create 6 differnt windows as parts to construct three differnt window assemblies
    Then create your single PCS window

    OR

    In PCS build your frame
    Build a hroizontal array arrays
    Build two vertical mullions (not an array as the height would be a fun nightmare but doable.
    Then create your glass from the same outlines used to create the frame.

    Now you won't really quantify to the part level but to the assembly level.

    If you want another way I can add PFB, and plain old modeling, linestryles that you can't render, etc.
  • Hello Conny,

    The fastest way, I reckon, would be using Solids, as you have the arcs already, you just need to draw the profile for the frame and use "Solid By Extrusion Along". PC Studio would be an option, as Robert mentioned, but a bit tricky if you have never used it.

    HTH



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