Curtain Wall by temper #1

In the past years I met many Curtain Wall related question, and going to answer you. This micro series is addressed to advanced users. If you have questions, do not hesitate to ask.

The easiest is, to use a Wall

Place a Wall in a plan or 3D View with any Curtain Wall type. (Choose on the top of Properties Palette)

1. Check Type Properties by hitting Edit Type button on the Properties Palette. Here you can specify Vertical and Horizontal layout rule, distance. 
2. Justification and rotation Angle can be set at instance properties, or by clicking the mark after selection. 
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4. After this, it is unpretentious to turn your Curtain Wall colorful. Select the panels one-by-one in groups and change them to another Curtain Panel or WALL type. (Maybe you should use the TAB key, to select the wanted one.)
5. If you are brave enought, select Curtain Wall types to the panels and change their Angles different from the bigone. (Step 2-4)
6. For superheroes I suggest to repeat Step 5 aswell ;)

In the properties palette you can select where to schedule these special walls with the "Categorize as" parameter. 

Place a Wall

Actually this is the most common step to start drafting. It is recommended to care about 3D, not only the plan layout. Check options one-by-one on the Options Bar after selecting the Wall tool from the Ribbon or type the "WA" keyboard shortcut.

User Interface during Wall command

1. Choose a placing method from the green backgrounded Ribbon section
2. Select the Wall Type you would like to build
3. Select the direction from the actual level (Height, Depth means up and down)
4. Select a Level or type in a real height or dept (depends on the third paragaph)
5. Location Line shows the theoretic line of the Wall structure, it can be: Wall Centerline, Core Centerline, Finish Face: Exterior, Finish Face Interior, Core Face: Exterior, Core Face: Interior (for effective modeling I suggest you, to use Core faces and centerline if possible)

Online Trial

I have seen this before in Beta, but I could not imageine that Autodesk is coming out with online trial this year.

It is not available in every region, yet...

Before you strat to scream, I have to tell you, most of the software developers going this way, in their own speed :)
If you like the unclouded way, you can buy an expensive machine to use...

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