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Curtain panels

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Curtain panels

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- [Instructor] So, building from last week, I want to make these panels I was talking about. If I zoom in, we'll look, we'll see we have a nice little glass panel, and it's got a post on it but it's sticking off of a backer panel, so if I tab onto this panel, and if I click Edit Family, you kind of see what I mean here. So if I pan around, I'm going to look at it on Realistic. So we have a nice backer, a little post, and it's holding the glass off the wall. Okay, let's do it. I'm going to close out of here, and I'm going to close out of here, and under Families, let's go New. Let's go to Curtain Wall Panel, and we'll click Open. Let's go to Manage > Project Units, and let's set our length to Suppress zero feet 'cause it just annoys me, click OK, OK, maybe change our scale to an inch and a half. Okay, first thing I would do is set the reference plane for my backer panel, so I'm going to right-click on this reference plane, and Create Similar. On the Draw panel, I'm going to click on my…

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