Window Assembly Puzzle

[Anonymous]

I'm hoping someone can give me a hand with a problem I'm having. I'm
attempting to create an elliptical window assembly and am not having any
luck with it. I want to create a window at the top of a circular curtain
wall. The problem is that the curtain wall has been sliced at an angle-and
this seems to be confusing either me or ADT, I can't tell which. ADT is
giving me some weird results. I'm not all that sure it can do what I'm
attempting to create. I've posted a file in customer files under the same
subject name. Would someone be so kind as to take a look at it and tell me
if it's possible?

Thanks,

Erin

[Anonymous]

Erin create your ellipse on the world UCS plane. I took your ellipse and
aligned it to crosshairs I created from 2 lines . Then convert the ellipse
into a curtain wall. At that point you can use the align command again to
place the curtain wall on top of (Nice Work!) the structure. If you turn on
visibility of curtainwalls in Plan Work Display rep you can confirm that the
curtain wall follows the shape of the ellipse by using rotate3d and a
rotation of 90 degrees to make it flat in the world UCS XY plane.


--
Charlie Busa

Autodesk Independent AEC Consultant

CADD Services
PO. Box 25262
Winston-Salem, NC 27114
336 945-0626
"Erin" wrote in message
news:E17707BBD76DE69063CAC33A0D24BBA3@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> I'm hoping someone can give me a hand with a problem I'm having. I'm
> attempting to create an elliptical window assembly and am not having any
> luck with it. I want to create a window at the top of a circular curtain
> wall. The problem is that the curtain wall has been sliced at an
angle-and
> this seems to be confusing either me or ADT, I can't tell which. ADT is
> giving me some weird results. I'm not all that sure it can do what I'm
> attempting to create. I've posted a file in customer files under the same
> subject name. Would someone be so kind as to take a look at it and tell
me
> if it's possible?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Erin
>
>

[Anonymous]

Hi Charlie,

Thanks for the great advice, I never would have figured that out. (I always
forget about that align command!)

Erin

"cbusa" wrote in message
news:4A9978F80F42370114AB18B98D657411@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> Erin create your ellipse on the world UCS plane. I took your ellipse and
> aligned it to crosshairs I created from 2 lines . Then convert the ellipse
> into a curtain wall. At that point you can use the align command again to
> place the curtain wall on top of (Nice Work!) the structure. If you turn
on
> visibility of curtainwalls in Plan Work Display rep you can confirm that
the
> curtain wall follows the shape of the ellipse by using rotate3d and a
> rotation of 90 degrees to make it flat in the world UCS XY plane.
>
>
> --
> Charlie Busa
>
> Autodesk Independent AEC Consultant
>
> CADD Services
> PO. Box 25262
> Winston-Salem, NC 27114
> 336 945-0626
> "Erin" wrote in message
> news:E17707BBD76DE69063CAC33A0D24BBA3@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > I'm hoping someone can give me a hand with a problem I'm having. I'm
> > attempting to create an elliptical window assembly and am not having any
> > luck with it. I want to create a window at the top of a circular
curtain
> > wall. The problem is that the curtain wall has been sliced at an
> angle-and
> > this seems to be confusing either me or ADT, I can't tell which. ADT is
> > giving me some weird results. I'm not all that sure it can do what I'm
> > attempting to create. I've posted a file in customer files under the
same
> > subject name. Would someone be so kind as to take a look at it and tell
> me
> > if it's possible?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Erin
> >
> >
>
>