Delve into the intricacies of constructing a skylight using sloped glazing in architecture. The article provides a step by step guide on modifying the view range, setting the roof type slope, utilizing the rectangle tool, setting the slope, and adding curtain grids and mullions.
Key Insights
- The process begins by modifying the view range to six feet from the default four feet, allowing a better view of the skylight drawing.
- The roof type slope is set to sloped glazing and the rectangle tool is used to align the drawing to the center of the skylight while setting the slope according to the desired look.
- Adding curtain grids and mullions is the final step, which is crucial in dividing up the curtain wall and giving the skylight its final structure.
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Now that we have the framework for all this drawn in, we can go ahead and actually draw the skylight. And so the first thing I want to do, though, is I want to modify my view range so that it's sitting up a little higher. The default is going to be four feet, so I'm going to change that to six feet.
And that's just going to lift us up a bit so that we can actually see where this is being drawn. We're going to use the roof type, Sloped Glazing. And so I'll change this to Sloped Glazing here.
What we want to do is have it slope from this point to this point to create a ridge down the middle. I'll use my rectangle tool and bring it across to hit this point here, which is the face of our wall all the way around. Then I'm going to align it to the center of my skylight.
Like I said before, these are the only two that I want to have slope, so I can go ahead and turn those off for the two verticals so that these two are the only ones left. Then I can set my slope and set a nine-in-twelve. I can set it to one- or two-in-twelve, depending on what that slope is going to look like.
When I finish the sketch here, you can see we've got our skylight in place. If we look at it in 3D, you can see all we ended up with was a line here. What's happening is that we actually drew it at a lower level.
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So I'm going to go ahead and set that so that we have it up at the top of the parapet, which is where we want it for this instance. Then we can go back on our roof plan here; because we did set this up higher to have it cut higher, it's now exactly where we want it.
We can go in and adjust some of the curtain grids that are associated with it, and I want them to line up with the ones coming out from the curtain wall. If I go to Architecture > Curtain Grid, we can add these in and then I can align them.
I was still on Multiple Lines. You see how that worked out? Not so great. So you want to make sure you're turning that option off because it's only good if you're doing multiple alignments.
That one's all set, and then I can put the same grids on the opposite side as well. It's not quite as friendly as when you do the curtain walls because they really do want to align with each other.
But for some reason, when we do it on the sloped glazing, they don't share the same relationship. Now when we look at it, we can see that we've got the curtain wall divided up. All we have to do now is add mullions to it.
So I'll go to Architecture > Mullion > All Grid Segments. Now we've got all the mullions added to our skylight. The only thing we have left to do here is to take those three walls that we created in the previous video and attach the tops of them, this time, to our sloped glazing.
And now we've added a custom skylight to the project.
