Learn the detailed process of creating a new storefront wall design in your blueprint, starting with adjusting the wall type and settings, to drawing the wall, and finally placing a door. This step-by-step tutorial guides you through the manipulation of features within your architectural design software to achieve a precise and accurate outcome.
Key Insights
- The article provides detailed instructions on how to draw a new storefront wall using the wall command and changing the wall type to the storefront curtain wall type.
- During the process, it is critical to double-check settings such as the base offset and the level at which the wall is drawn. The article further illustrates how to draw a door within the storefront wall, ensuring that the dimensions are accurate and feasible.
- The tutorial underscores the importance of working in elevation to gain a better grasp of the design and to spot any discrepancies or misalignments in real-time. This real-time adjustment ensures a higher level of accuracy in the architectural design.
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Now we can go ahead and draw the new storefront wall that's going to go in right here. So I'll just activate the wall command and I'm going to change the wall type to our storefront curtain wall type here, this one right here. And then I'll just use this portion of the wall as my guide and I'll go ahead and draw it down.
And we want to double check to make sure our settings are correct here. So you can see the base offsets at negative 4 feet and then it's up to just negative 5 inches. And that makes for an interesting wall here.
We won't be doing that. So I'm going to go ahead and change my offset to 0. And then we'll have this go up to level 2. And I'll set the negative offset to negative 3 foot 6. And so now what I can do is I can draw that in. We'll actually see it because it's within our view.
And I'll just draw it from one edge to the next until we hit that curtain wall at that point. And then now we've got our storefront wall that we've created. And the goal here is we want to put a door somewhere in this location.
And this is too big right here for a door. You can see that's 4 foot 11. So that's going to be way too much space for that.
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So what I'll do is I'll just draw a couple of reference lines that I can have in here. So I can see kind of what a 3 foot door is going to look like. And one of the things I'll do is I know I'm going to have a mullion at some point in here.
And so I'll take this line right here. And I'm going to copy it down from the end of the mullion, the endpoint here, to the midpoint. Because this midpoint is going to be where the grid is.
And so now I know that if I have 3 feet from this point to this point, and if I put a curtain grid here, and it'll build a mullion for me, then I'll have a 3 foot door at that point. So just a little workflow tip for you. And if I go to the architecture tab and curtain grid, then we can place that curtain grid at this location like I was talking.
And it doesn't seem like it's going to grab exactly, because if you look at the bottom left corner of my screen, it's saying 2 thirds of a panel. And I'm not worried about that too much, because I can just place the grid and then adjust it after the fact. And now that I've drawn these items, it's prudent for me to go back and delete all of my working drafting lines, because those are going to show up in the view.
And if I throw this thing on a sheet, then guess what? We're going to have those in our view. And so like I said, this was going to be our door panel here. And so what we'll do is we'll go ahead and unpin these items that we're trying to modify in here.
And then we can go ahead and actually adjust the panels to match what we're looking to do. And sometimes this is easier to do in elevation. And so what I like to do is, and it also helps kind of get a better feel for the design, is I'll create an interior elevation that looks at this wall.
And then I can work on it from there. And so you can kind of see what it looks like now. You know, we had no idea whether or not that this curtain grid was going to be there, because maybe we'd forgotten what the wall was actually going to look like.
But now we can see that there's kind of a header type here. And then we've got our, the rest of our curtain wall in this location. And so you can see, as I try to pick these items, I'm only able to grab certain grids.
Like the one I created here. And that's because when we look at our selection settings right now, what we're seeing is that selection of pinned elements is turned off. And so if I were to go in and turn that back on, so I can select pinned elements, you can see these things are now back and alive.
And so first thing I'm going to do is, I'm going to take a look at where this is located. And eight feet is going to be fine. And then I'm going to go through and unpin the elements I want to modify.
So this is our door right here with our side light. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to select the sill and I'm going to remove it and unpin it simultaneously here. And so now what we'll do is we'll go ahead and adjust that door here.
And again, it's a pin panel. We need to go ahead and unpin it. And then I'll go in and I can change the type from glazed to a door panel.
And you can see we have right here, door, curtain wall, single glass. That should work out just fine for what we're doing. And then the reason I like to jump in and do the elevation is because you can immediately see some of the things that are just not looking correct here.
And so when we look from level one up to level two, because I demoed the wall that went all the way up to level two here, now we're just seeing like a big hole that I took out. That and then also you can see that this doesn't create a great alignment. And so when I look at this curtain grid here, I can see that that is up to 10 feet.
And so when I look at the height of this guy here, it's at 10 foot 6. And so if I were to reduce this down to negative 4 feet, it'll drop it down to 10 feet. And this will actually sit right below that portion of exterior wall that pops into our lobby. And so that looks like a much better setup for us to then do another infill wall here.
The next thing I'm going to do is just, I always like to do this, but double check what my head height is going to be. And so if I wanted a true 8 foot door, I'd have to increase this by half a million width. But I think in our case here, for the purpose of this project, we're in good shape at 7 foot 10 and 3 quarters.
So let's jump back to our level one plan. And then we can kind of get back into adjusting the rest of this so that the layout looks the way that we want it to.