Creating and editing curtain panel types

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And looking around the model,

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we can zoom in and see the first curtain wall that we want to work on.

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And it's the one here between the tower and the main building.

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As it's quite difficult to see,

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we'll first select the curtain wall

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and then going down to the view control bar

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from the temporary hide isolate tool.

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We'll choose isolate element.

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And now we can see that this is the only object that's visible in the view.

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And that's gonna make it a lot easier for us to work on.

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Looking at the curtain wall,

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we have a narrow column of panels down the left hand side here

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and these are where it meets against the main building.

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And we'd like these to be metal panels

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rather than the glass panels that they currently are.

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So we'll start by selecting one of those panels

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and we'll need to move the cursor over the edge of the panel

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and then use the tab key to cycle through the objects until the panel is highlighted.

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And then we'll click to select it,

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looking at the type selector, we can see it's the system panel glazed type.

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So we'll come back to the panel itself and then we'll right click

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and from the right click menu here,

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we can see we have select panels

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and we'll choose a long vertical grid from the cascading menu.

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So now we can see we have all the panels selected down this first column

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and looking at the type selector here,

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we can see we have eight curtain panels and they're all this system panel glazed.

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So we need to create a new one.

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So we'll click edit type

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and then from the type properties here,

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we'll click duplicate to create a new panel type

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and we'll name this metal panel.

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Now we'll click OK

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to create that new panel

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and looking at the type parameters here,

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we can see the material is currently set to glass.

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So we'll select this

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and then using the ellipses button that appears,

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we'll open up the material browser.

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Once this is open,

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we'll use the search box at the top here to search for metal materials.

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And then from the search results, we'll choose the aluminum material here at the top

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and then we'll click OK, to assign this on to our new metal panel type.

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We'll click OK. Once more to just now save the changes.

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And now the panels that we had selected

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are of the new metal panel type. And if I deselect them here,

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we can see that reflected in their finish.

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So you can see we have these smaller horizontal rows of panels

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and they need to be the same aluminum panel that we've just created.

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So to select these, we first need to pick one of them.

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So again, we'll hover near the edge of one panel

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and use the tab key to cycle through until it's highlighted

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and then click to select it.

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Now we'll right click and again from the select panels menu,

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we'll choose the

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along horizontal grid option

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to select all of the panels along that row.

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Looking at the type selector,

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we can see that we have multiple types selected as the first

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panel in the row is already of the metal panel type,

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but that's ok.

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We'll just click on the type selector

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and scroll down and choose the metal panel to assign into this row.

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Once again,

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we'll deselect these and we can see that they

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have that metal material finish on them now,

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so we'll repeat this for the row above.

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So again, we'll hover over one of the panels and

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tab through until it's highlighted and select it.

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And then right click and choose the a

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long horizontal grid under the select panels menu.

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And once they're selected from the type selector, again,

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we'll choose the metal panel type to assign onto these panels.

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Now, for the row above, we'll do this slightly differently.

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So I'll put my cursor just to the left of the

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row of panels here and then holding the mouse button down.

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I'll drag across the select door that's in that area looking up at the type selector,

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we can see we have multiple categories selected and, and below that,

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we can see we have 39 objects.

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So we'll get to the modify ribbon tab

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and we'll choose the filter button here from the selection panel.

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And once this is open, we'll undertake the curtain wall grids and curtain wall

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ions

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to be left with just the curtain panels

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and then click. OK?

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And we'll now have just a curtain wall panel selected.

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So again, from the type selector, now we can come and choose the metal panel type.

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So we'll repeat this once more for the top row.

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So again, starting to the left of the row here,

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we'll hold the mouse button down and when they select all in that area,

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and then we'll get up to the modified ribbon again and choose the filter tool.

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Once more.

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Only this time, I'll choose the check none button here

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which will uncheck all of the categories here. And then we can just recheck the

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current panels category

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and then click. OK? To have those selected.

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Then for the final time on this curtain wall,

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we can swap these in the type selector to be the metal panel type.

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So now that we have all of those metal panels assigned into the curtain wall,

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we finished the work that we need to do.

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So we'll go back to the view control bar

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and from the temporary hide isolate tool, we'll choose reset,

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temporary hide isolate

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and then that will bring the rest of the model back.

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And we can see the curtain wall in its place with the rest of the model.