Curtain wall Mullion Joins

[jcoe]

I was wondering if someone could tell me what might be causing this join condition. The curtain wall system was designed using a series of different profile shapes - one for the door center mullion, one for the door right/ left/ top mullion and others for the glazed areas.

Is it just because they are different types of mullion profiles or does it have to do with how the profiles might have been created?

I hope this makes sense. Thank you for any help you may be able to offer.

[dhurtubise]

Seems likeyou might have something in that profile. Cn you post the family? Or even paste the CW in a new file.

[jcoe]

File Attached.

[Matt H]

I got one idea just looking at your file.....

Throw it on wireframe.... The mullion going horizontal across the top of the doors... you'll notice that it look fine from the North elevation. But then you switch to the South elevation its not.

^^^ Just stating the obvious, bare with me.

Throw it in 3d. The verticle mullions are stopping at the "raised" middle of that horizontal mullion. One idea, might be to ride the horizontal mullion of the raise section.... Also attached a section.

[Matt H]

My advise would be if you had to show a section of this assembly, would be to (i have to say it) hand draw it aka. use a detail line. :)

[dhurtubise]

Seems like youre vertical mullion might be stopping there (see the attachment). Ill try to ahve a better look at it later.

[twiceroadsfool]

Seems like youre vertical mullion might be stopping there (see the attachment). Ill try to ahve a better look at it later.

They are.

Youre mullions are truncating at the nearest extent of the intersecting mullion, in this case... that bump out in the profile that Dan is showing. See attached, after i removed the bump from the profile.

If you select the mullion and hit the intersection button (looks like tic tac toe) youll see that it will make the verticals continuous, but will create the same issue with the side mullions, as they also have protrusions. For this reason, i would make seperate profiles and mullion types for those surrounding doors and those that arent... You may want to consider using different profiles and different mullion types for the sides and the tops, so you dont have this issue.

And just a personal preference, but i like to name the mullions "end" and "opp end" instead of left and right. Reason being? The moment someone mirrors the CW, the left and right are completely bonkers anyway. :)

[jcoe]

So, the curtainwall monster strikes again.

Thanks for all the great replies. Its unfortunate that I cannot use the door stop in the profile, but if it means my elevations look more graphically correct, then this is something I can live with.

[patricks]

In my opinion, those CW mullion profiles are unnecessarily complicated for model purposes. You really only need the rectangular profile to achieve the look you want in elevation, and then show the actual mullion profile as a detail component in a detail (section) view.

If you have lots of CW mullions in many places, a more complicated profile like that will make the file size larger and make the model slower. Simpler is better in this case.

[dhurtubise]

I can see the point of having a more detail mullion profile. A simple extend parameter would help a lot.