Opening in wall for curtain wall

[mmiles]

My project has loads of glass and windows (residential project; beach house). I have opted to model with curtain walls; also to use exterior CMU/Stud walls that span from the top of foundation up through 2nd floor to roof. In several areas of the exterior walls i have placed openings into which I then placed curtain walls.

Now, here is the problem: I used the edit profile tool to create the openings, cutting out the bottom edge at the openings. The exterior cmu/stud wall has a base extension (for the cmu and the finish material) which is causing the edited profile to drop down below the sketch line once I finish sketching.

Questions:
1: what is best practice for inserting curtain wall type assemblies into different wall type assemblies?
2: Why do the sketch lines for the sides, at the curtain wall ends, keep moving when I go into the edit profile sketch mode- in other words, my opening is aligned to the end mullions, initially, but when I go to edit, they moved outward- i think to the curtain wall endpoints.

thanks.

[Scott Womack]

First, curtainwalls can be set to automatically imbedd themselves into a wall, cutting an opening automatically.

As for your situation, you'll have to set the ends of your curtainwall sections to NOT join. This will assist in what you are trying to do.

Re-doing the curtainwalls to automatically imbed is still your best bet.

[mmiles]

The embedding would have saved me a lot of time I think. How does one acheive this?

[dhurtubise]

Go into the type properties and check Automatically Embed

[mmiles]

AH...didn't see that it was a Type parameter. I have now experimented with the cut geometry tool for this issue with sucess as well. Wish I had asked earlier...spent so much time futzing with the edit profile- which I think generated other errors I am now experiencing with wall joins elsewhere.

thanks, all.