Discover the process for setting up curtain grids and adjusting the framework to fit curtain wall doors in architectural designs. This content provides a step-by-step guide on how to perfectly align and adjust curtain grids for door placements in a building design.
Key Insights
- The process begins with the framework for the door in place, before adding the curtain grid. Adjustments may be necessary to fit the right panel and door type, such as a curtain wall single glass.
- It is possible to adjust the placement of doors, and even copy the framework to replicate the same layout for multiple doors. Careful alignment and dimensioning is crucial to ensuring the doors fit correctly and are flush with the wall.
- When making adjustments to the walls, it's important to consider any constraints in place. Adjustments can be made either to the wall or the curtain grid, and it's important to carefully align everything to maintain the integrity of the design.
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Now that we've got the framework for our door in place here, we can go ahead and add that curtain grid. And just like before, I'll kind of add it off to the side and then I'll align it into place. And in order to get that the right panel in here, I need to go ahead and delete the sill piece, select my door panel, unpin it, and then I can change it to the actual door that we want to use, which is the curtain wall single glass.
And then just like any other door, we can kind of fiddle with where the swing is going to be. And so now that I have the framework for this, what I could do is I can copy these two lines. So I really don't need that one as much, but I could copy, say, this line right here.
And then we can kind of make some adjustments so that we end up with the same sort of layout with our doors here. And so when I look at where I want to put doors, I can put one along this edge because that's the closest to having it be set up for a door that's sort of flush with the wall here. Because if I put it here, it's kind of halfway into the wall.
And then this one's exactly what we want because it's right on the edge. And so I'll start here, and we can make adjustments as needed, but I think we're in good shape here. So I'll go ahead and set this guy to be the three feet for our door opening.
And then I can copy it over that half width. And then we can do the same process, add that grid, use the align tool to make sure everything lines up. And then you can see there's our three foot dimension, but we are off by just a bit.
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We have two options. We can adjust this wall slightly, or we can adjust the curtain wall. I'm going to opt to adjust the drywall here and just slide it down.
And I forgot we have the equal constraints on. If you notice, as I move these around, it's going to move the whole thing because it's all set to equal constraints. And so definitely don't want to do that.
If you are going to make adjustments to these walls, it's always important to know where your constraints are. And so if I delete that dimension, remember, we get that error saying, hey, you've got a constraint. What do you want to do? And in this case, I'll say unconstrained because we've already kind of used that to develop our framework for our wall here.
And so what I'll do is I'll go in now, and I can make the adjustment that I was talking about here by sliding this down. And I can even make it a little bit more on the favor of having this be about two inches offset so that it does sit correctly. So there's a couple ways we can do that.
I can move this down the two and a half inches, and it sets it pretty much where we want. And we can add more mullions, or this can be a cap, or this wall can jog like what we talked about before with the wall at the window. And so what we can do here is we can go in and delete this sill just like we did on the other one.
And then if we unpin the panel, we've got this guy ready to go. We can use MA as our match type, and I can pop that one in and flip the swing around. And now I've got two doors, and then we've got one more that we need to put in, which is going to be essentially the same setup as the door we had on the top.
So I'll do the same thing, draw in my guidelines with my three-foot door. And since we can do math, I can just copy it up one and a quarter inches, which gives me the same setup. And I'll draw in that curtain grid and then align it in place.
And for the last one here, we'll go ahead and do the same thing. Unpin everything and match type, change the swing, and there we go. Now we've got our mini conference rooms set up here, our offices set up here, and then we've got two conference rooms blocked out that still have some curtain wall work that need to be done for those ones.
