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The building is surrounded by a curtain wall system, so we'll use the Curtain Wall tool
to create it.
Open the Favorites palette choosing the Window, .... Palettes, .... Favorites item.
Activate the Curtain Wall tool.
Double-click the "Curtain Wall" item from the Favorites palette.
Please note: Favorites allow you to save your preferred tool configurations for later use.
This way you can access your most frequently used building elements with just one click.
Choose the "Polyline, Single" Geometry Method from the Info Box.
You have to place the Curtain Wall 6000mm from the left side of the Slab.
Go back to the floor plan by pressing the F2 key, ... and move the cursor to the upper-left
corner of the Slab.
Type "X 6000 +" and the cursor jumps to the correct position.
Press Enter ... move the cursor down, ... and click when the cursor, when it takes on the
"Pencil point with intersection sign" shape.
Click with the Sun cursor to define the "outside" direction of the Curtain Wall. Here, move
the cursor to the left side of the Curtain Wall ... and click.
In the appearing Place Curtain Wall dialog box, modify the height of the Curtain Wall
to 3000mm ... and click Place.
Create the other three Curtain Walls with the same method according to the first Curtain
Wall and the sides of the Slab.
The unnecessary Mullions should be removed from the Curtain Wall.
Select the Curtain Wall in Floor plan with the Arrow tool.
Click the "Edit in 3D" button, when this button appears on the selected Curtain Wall.
Another way to enter Edit mode is to select the Curtain Wall, and then use the Design, ...
Modify Curtain Wall, ... Edit System command.
When the Curtain Wall is in editing mode, the model is shown in the 3D window.
Select the middle Mullion frame and delete it.
Let's Drag the Mullion frame.
Select the Mullion frame and drag it with the mouse.
Click when the cursor's shape indicates it is at the halfway point of the Boundary frame.
The cursor shape is an Arrow with Heavy Checkmark.
Let's Create a new Mullion frame.
Double-click on Mullion Frame in the Favorites palette.
Move the cursor to the middle of the Boundary frame.
Draw the Frame upside down while holding down the Shift key.
Delete the Frame which is on the right side of the Panel.
Let's continue and Replace the middle Panel with a Door.
Select the middle panel.
Double-click on the "C.W. Door 2" entry in the Favorites palette.
When you have completed all the necessary modifications of the selected Curtain Wall,
click OK in the Edit mode Display palette to save changes and return to the 3D window.
Delete the unnecessary Mullion frames of the other three sides, as it is presented on the screen.
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