Explore this step-by-step guide on completing wall designs using level one plans, alignment tools, and curtain walls. Get an insight into how to manage profiles and handle curtain walls to achieve a clean, professional finish.
Key Insights
- The process involves returning to the initial level one plan, drawing reference planes as guides, and using the align tool to close off the wall designs.
- A critical step is determining where the wall ends and drawing the curtain wall, which may require adjustments for precision.
- The final steps include saving the work done to prevent loss of progress, drawing the roof, and updating the profiles, particularly for the curtain wall.
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To finish off these walls, we're going to do a couple of things. So first off, we're going to jump back to our Level One plan. And if you recall, we had drawn these walls, not really knowing where this one was going to go.
And it'll become a lot clearer once we see this. But I'd like to just use this as my basis. So I'm going to draw a reference plane; this will just be a guide for me here.
But essentially, that tells me how far I want that one to go. And we can use the Align tool to close this off. And I'll use Align.
And drop it in here. And then now it's kind of weird, right? We've got something strange going on with not having a great connection there. And it'll be a lot easier once we edit that profile, which we'll need the roof to do.
But you can see how this is the look that we want. And so we have to decide, where does that wall want to end? And so I'm going to go back to my Level One.
And so I'm actually going to have it stop back here. If I align it with this point instead, then I'll get the clean break that I'm looking for. And that doesn't mean that if we wanted this alignment here, we couldn't have it.
But just for this project, that's the way we're going to go ahead and do that. Now the next step is we're going to draw in our curtain wall. And we're going to do it at a pretty basic level here; we're just going to draw a Curtain Wall 1 along these two points.
And we're going to have it go from Level One up to Top of Parapet with a negative offset. So I'm just going to start my wall command. And I'll set this to Curtain Wall 1.
And then I'm going to set my top offset to negative six. And we might change that later; we're just going to take a look and see where that lands us. But I'll go ahead and draw this in.
And we are going to have to shift it around a little bit. But this will give us a good starting point. If I were to go to 3D now, you can see we've got the curtain wall, we've got these walls here.
And there's still a lot to do. We have to get that roof in and the canopy. And there's a lot of work to be done on this curtain wall.
And so that's what we're going to tackle next. I think we're going to go ahead and dive in and draw that roof element since it's just a pretty straightforward piece that we can draw in. And that'll also give us the boundary line for where we want to edit this profile. So I'm going to save because we're doing a lot of stuff here.
And we want to make sure we don't have to redo any of that. And then in the next video, we're going to take a look at drawing the roof. And then we're going to embellish this curtain wall and update our profiles here.
