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walls centerlines

ChrisRevuelta
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Can walls' centerlines geometric data be accessed in any way either within ABD or within Generative Components?

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    Hi Chris,
    Can you elaborate on what you would like to do?



  • 0 Offline in reply to Steve Cocchi

    We currently have curtain walls as part of the wall tool, all well and good except no vertical mullions, which is a real pity :-((
    IF we had vertical mullions as part of the wall tool, then we would also have curved curtain walls - how cool would that be.
    We can use the horizontal mullions centerline combined with the "array along a path" kind of method to implement this... That works a treat manually by creating a profile, extruding it vertically and then using the centerline to "array along path" copy... Could it not be automated?

  • 0 Offline in reply to ChrisRevuelta
    Ah, I see. Yes, AFAIK the Wall Assembly creation tool is designed with a single wall length in mind, so a vertical mullion would not fit into that framework. It sounds like you are currently creating a simple solid and then arraying that along the length of the wall? If so, a Polar array using the arc wall's center would effectively do the same thing, though obviously it wouldn't result in a single element and it's certainly not as slick. I'm not sure if anything like this is on the backlog, so it could be worthwhile logging a Service Request with support with the applicable details of what you'd like to see so that an Enhancement request can be filed (assuming one does not exist).

    It should also be possible to create a curved version using PC Studio since the delivered Curtain Walls (via the Curtain Wall tool) are straight lengths, but that of course requires the knowledge to do so. Perhaps someone here has done something similar?



  • 0 Offline in reply to Steve Cocchi

    Yes correct, just an idea... I was thinking perhaps a macro that combines the current wall command, chooses a curtain wall type, would also give the user the option to choose the spacing /number/dimension etc & initial position of vertical items... Anyway, programming stuff that is way beyond my current capabilities :))

  • 0 Offline in reply to ChrisRevuelta

    Huh... you and me both. :)

    Another potential option suggested by a colleague would be to create a custom linestyle that uses a 3D point cell, though while I know that's possible I've never tried anything like that in this particular context. Even a line (using this custom linestyle) could be placed for the graphic component, with DataGroup data for the applicable wall applied after the fact. Just thinking outside the box.

    Edit: Check out this Ask Inga article - http://communities.bentley.com/communities/other_communities/askinga/w/askinga/1442.3d-custom-line-styles



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