TIP To ensure that the Properties palette is displayed before you select a tool, right-click in the drawing area, and click
Properties.
1
Open the tool palette that you want to use, and select a curtain wall tool.
If necessary, scroll to display the tool that you want to use.
2
On the Properties palette, expand Basic, and expand General.
3
If desired, you can enter a description for the curtain wall by clicking the Description setting.
4
Select a style.
The curtain wall style determines many settings of the curtain wall, like the grid, the frames and mullions
used, as well as cell infills and display settings. For information about curtain wall styles, see “
Curtain Wall
Styles
” on page 762.
5
Under Bound Spaces, define if this curtain wall can be used as a bounding object for associative spaces.
You can select three options here:
■
Yes: this curtain wall can be used as bounding object for associative spaces.
■
No: this curtain wall cannot be used as bounding object for associative spaces.
■
By style: this curtain wall will use the bounding settings from the curtain wall style.
For more information on associative spaces, see “
Generating Associative Spaces
” on page 1587.
6
Expand Dimensions.
7
Modify the dimensions of the curtain wall:
Then …
If you want to specify …
enter a value for Base Height.
the base height of the curtain wall
enter miter values for Start Miter and End Miter.
start and end miters
enter the appropriate value for roof line offset from base
height. This offset can be set only during the insertion of the
curtain wall.
define an offset of the roof line from the curtain wall base
height
enter the appropriate value for floor line offset from base line.
This offset can be set only during the insertion of the curtain
wall.
define an offset of the floor line from the curtain wall base
line
TIP The length of the curtain wall is defined on screen. You can however, edit it in the Properties palette later.
8
To make further edits to the roof line and floor line, expand Advanced, and click the Roof/floor line
worksheet.
For more information, see “
Changing the Roof Line and the Floor Line of a Curtain Wall
” on page 829.
9
In the drawing area, specify the insertion point of the curtain wall.
You can move or hide the Properties palette to expose more of the drawing area.
NOTE If you have Dynamic Input activated on the application window status bar (DYN), you can use dynamic
dimensions to specify the curtain wall length and angle. After clicking the start point of the curtain wall, dynamic
input fields for length and angle appear around the curtain wall preview. Enter values as desired, and use the
TAB key to switch between input fields.
10
Specify the endpoint of the curtain wall, and press
ENTER
.
754 | Chapter 19 Curtain Walls
Summary of Contents for 00128-051462-9310 - AUTOCAD 2008 COMM UPG FRM 2005 DVD
Page 1: ...AutoCAD Architecture 2008 User s Guide 2007 ...
Page 4: ...1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...
Page 40: ...xl Contents ...
Page 41: ...Workflow and User Interface 1 1 ...
Page 42: ...2 Chapter 1 Workflow and User Interface ...
Page 146: ...106 Chapter 3 Content Browser ...
Page 164: ...124 Chapter 4 Creating and Saving Drawings ...
Page 370: ...330 Chapter 6 Drawing Management ...
Page 440: ...400 Chapter 8 Drawing Compare ...
Page 528: ...488 Chapter 10 Display System ...
Page 540: ...500 Chapter 11 Style Manager ...
Page 612: ...572 Chapter 13 Content Creation Guidelines ...
Page 613: ...Conceptual Design 2 573 ...
Page 614: ...574 Chapter 14 Conceptual Design ...
Page 678: ...638 Chapter 16 ObjectViewer ...
Page 683: ...Designing with Architectural Objects 3 643 ...
Page 684: ...644 Chapter 18 Designing with Architectural Objects ...
Page 788: ...748 Chapter 18 Walls ...
Page 942: ...902 Chapter 19 Curtain Walls ...
Page 1042: ...1002 Chapter 21 AEC Polygons ...
Page 1052: ...Changing a door width 1012 Chapter 22 Doors ...
Page 1106: ...Changing a window width 1066 Chapter 23 Windows ...
Page 1172: ...1132 Chapter 24 Openings ...
Page 1226: ...Using grips to change the flight width of a spiral stair run 1186 Chapter 25 Stairs ...
Page 1368: ...Using the Angle grip to edit slab slope 1328 Chapter 28 Slabs and Roof Slabs ...
Page 1491: ...Design Utilities 4 1451 ...
Page 1492: ...1452 Chapter 30 Design Utilities ...
Page 1536: ...1496 Chapter 31 Layout Curves and Grids ...
Page 1564: ...1524 Chapter 32 Grids ...
Page 1611: ...Documentation 5 1571 ...
Page 1612: ...1572 Chapter 36 Documentation ...
Page 1706: ...Stretching a surface opening Moving a surface opening 1666 Chapter 36 Spaces ...
Page 1710: ...Offsetting the edge of a window opening on a freeform space surface 1670 Chapter 36 Spaces ...
Page 1956: ...1916 Chapter 42 Fields ...
Page 2035: ...Properties of a detail callout The Properties of a Callout Tool 1995 ...
Page 2060: ...2020 Chapter 45 Callouts ...
Page 2170: ...2130 Chapter 47 AEC Content and DesignCenter ...
Page 2171: ...Other Utilities 6 2131 ...
Page 2172: ...2132 Chapter 48 Other Utilities ...
Page 2182: ...2142 Chapter 51 Reference AEC Objects ...
Page 2212: ...2172 Chapter 52 Customizing and Adding New Content for Detail Components ...
Page 2217: ...AutoCAD Architecture 2008 Menus 54 2177 ...
Page 2226: ...2186 Chapter 54 AutoCAD Architecture 2008 Menus ...
Page 2268: ...2228 Index ...