Learn how to create and modify different types of panels for architectural projects including metal and glass panels. The article offers a step-by-step guide to creating, duplicating and aligning panels in a construction project, including designating specific patterns and colors.
Key Insights
- The process of creating a metal panel involves duplicating existing panels and modifying them as needed. This includes changing the fill pattern and adjusting the positioning of the panel to ensure a cohesive design.
- Creating glass panels follows a similar process, with additional steps to define the characteristics of the glass, such as the type of glazing, color, and whether there is a tinted glazing.
- Once the panels have been created, they can be saved and added to elevation sheets for further manipulation and integration into the overall project design. The panels can also be copied and aligned on different elevation sheets for consistent application.
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The next one we're going to do is going to be our metal panel. And to do that, we'll just do the same process we have been doing. I can just copy this down.
And then I'll do edit type here and duplicate. And this one, we're just going to call a metal panel. And I'm going to go ahead and see if we have a pattern for this.
And this one, it's a little easier because we are showing spacing on here. So I'll go to a model pattern. And we've got one already that we created in BIM 302, which is our 8 foot by 4 foot.
And everything looks good here. So I'll hit OK. And one thing you may notice is it came in kind of weird with where this is located.
We can actually, because this is a model pattern, we can kind of move these things around. And you wouldn't want this to be your panel in your legend because it just doesn't look like anything we're going to have on the project. So what I'll do is I'll move this down here to be at the bottom.
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And then because I know that this is a 4 foot box, I can move it up 2 feet and puts it in the middle here. And then because it's a 12 foot box, and this one looks like it's in the center, but we can double check that. So I can move it from here to the midpoint.
And you can see it was just a little bit off, which would have messed up everything we were trying to do here. And so I'll move it to the midpoint, and then I'm going to move it again over 4 feet so I can see like one set of panels in the middle here. And so that is going to be our setup for our metal panel.
And now you may have noticed I kind of moved this down to be more centered in the material, but it's only a one line item. If I just use that again, I'd have to move it around again. So what I'll do is I'll just copy the one from the PC2 because it's two lines and I like the way it's positioned.
And then I can give this one its designation, which is ACM-1. And then we'll call this out as it is. So this is an aluminum composite metal panel.
Give it the designation for the finish and the color. Just like we did for the plaster. Same thing for the metal panel.
Now, you may have noticed that we just called this one metal panel. And I think we're going to redo that because it doesn't really align with the standard that we've already established. So I'm going to rename it to be ACM-1 because that's the panel that we are designating it with this particular pattern.
Because we do have other metal panels, but they're going to have a different pattern. So I'm going to hit OK and just make sure we're staying within our own standard that we've established. We've got a couple more.
We've got one more metal that's going to represent the roof screen. And then we've got two panels for our different glass types, whether it's vision or whether it's spandrel glass. We'll make the next metal panel, which is an actual metal panel here.
So I'm going to edit type, duplicate. And this is going to be MP-1 because that's going to represent the metal panel that we're going to have at our roof screen. And I'm going to change the fill pattern to 8-inch parallel because that's the one we'll use on our model.
Everything looks good here. And then you can see totally different, right? And then we'll change this one to have the same designation that we're doing. And then lastly, we'll go ahead and type in the description.
And the color that we want. So that takes care of our exterior materials. And now we just need to do our last couple pieces, which are going to be the glass portions.
So I'll copy that one. And we'll do the same process. Edit type, duplicate.
This is going to be GL-1. And for this one, we will use a drafting pattern. And we'll use the diagonal up pattern here.
Everything looks good here. And we'll hit OK. And then just update our description.
So GL-1. And then I'll type in the description for the glass. So vision glass.
And this is going to be a 1-inch insulated glazing. Color is, since it's two panes, we'll say color is going to be clear plus clear, which just means it's two panes of clear glazing and no tinted glazing here. And just like before, we're going to copy it down.
And this one will be GL-2, which is going to be our spandrel glass. But we just need to update this guy here. So edit type, duplicate, GL-2.
And this one, I'll do diagonal crosshatch. And just to make it even more obvious, we'll add a background solid fill pattern so that we've got the crosshatch on top of a solid gray like that. And so we just need to update this to be spandrel.
And because this has a surface color on the inside surface, we can call that out here so that you can see. So color gray on surface four. So it's still an insulated glazing panel.
It just has a frit on the back of the glass panel. So that is our exterior material legend. So just like everything else I do, I always hit save after that.
And then we can go ahead and take a look at putting this on our elevation sheets. And so I'll jump in here and find that exterior material edge. You can see it's not with the blue box, which means it hasn't been put on a sheet yet.
But we can throw that in here. Turn off that viewport like we have been, and then I can adjust it so that it kind of sits down in the bottom here and fits nicely. And the ultimate test is selecting it, popping the clipboard, and going to the next elevation sheet, which is 402.
And then we'll do the paste align to current view. And now we've got it all set up. Looks like a little bit of adjustments will need to be made here, but generally this looks pretty good.
And so next step is going to be to make sure we've got all these materials applied correctly, which is starting to look pretty good. But I think we've got some patterns and things that we might need to adjust.
