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Creating curtain walls

Creating curtain walls - AutoCAD Architecture Tutorial

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Creating curtain walls

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our wall construction .DWG file, and I've left it in the same state as it was at the end of the last video, where I showed you some of the ways that you can edit and change the properties of your wall segments in your AutoCAD architecture models. Now what we're going to do is have a look at placing a simple curtain wall in our model in this case. Now a curtain wall is a glazed wall consisting of glass obviously glazing and mullions. And you'll often find that a lot of new construction you'll see these high rise buildings and they look like they're made of glass. That would be a curtain walling system that is used on the facade on the sides of that building. Now we're going to place a very simple curtain wall in our little wall construction .DWG file. Now before we do that, we need to just alter some of the wall segments that we've already got in place. The quickest way to do that is to…

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