autocad architecture for curtain wall

[Mike686]

hi, people who use autocad architectural

i.ve never try architectural but i would like to know something about it from you users

i work in the curtain wall and other aluminium framing industry

i have the product design suite premium, so i have autocad, autocad mech and inventor

but i've notice in another suite that the package include autocad architectural instead of the autocad electrical that come with my suite wich i never use

so what i want to know is what are the tools in  architectural for curtain walls and how it work

how bout the detail,  cant you extract part list, glass/panel list

i've seen a video or two of a corner curtain wall but beside that nothing...

so i've you have 2 min to tell me about the feature for curtain wall in autocad architectural

tell me about what you like/not etc...

[Holger.Kloecker]

Hi,

did you check out the AutoCAD Architecture 2013 helpfile on the curtain walls - ses here:

http://docs.autodesk.com/ARCHDESK/2013/ENU/filesARCHDESK/GUID-F8BEA145-7C35-4662-B8FE-0C2B08E5A676.h...

I hope this helps.

[David_W_Koch]

The out-of-the-box tools for Curtain Walls would be good for showing the architectural design intent.  While you might be able to customize the content to suit your needs, I would not say that the out-of-the-box content is set up to produce shop drawing level detailing, at least not directly in the Curtain Wall object itself.

I have never had the need to try to do a material takeoff based on an ACA Curtain Wall, so I am not certain how easy or how hard that might be.  I do not know that information on total mullion/frame lengths is very easy to schedule or extract, either.

[ntellery]

http://www.glazierscenter.com/brochures/ATH2012upgrade_en.pdf

http://www.cad-plan.com/cms/upload/pdf/brochures/ath-e.pdf

?  Read the recommendation for ACA in AUGI mag but they seem to mention only Acad so I'll let you investigate.