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Defining Infills for Curtain Wall Unit Cells
An infill defines the contents of a curtain wall unit cell. A curtain wall unit cell can have the default simple panel or
contain a nested grid, an AEC Polygon, door, window, or door/window assembly style. The object styles you use in
infills must exist in the current drawing to be added to an infill definition. Panels typically represent glazing or other
plain cladding, such as stone or concrete. For more information, see “
Assigning Infills to Curtain Wall Unit Cells ” on
page 864.
NOTE Nested grids and no infill are options you select when assigning an infill to cell. These options do not require infill
definitions. For information, see
“ Creating a Nested Grid in a Curtain Wall Unit ” on page 864 and “ Removing an Infill
Definition from a Curtain Wall Unit Style ” on page 855 .
You can define as many infills as you need, and then use cell assignments to specify the cells that use each infill. You
can modify, a default infill that is used for all unassigned cells.
NOTE Create infill definitions for a specific curtain wall unit style. Those definitions can be assigned only to grid cells in curtain
wall units of that style.
Materials
Styles use the materials of the object style assigned to each panel. For example, if you specify an infill to use the Standard
door/window assembly style, the materials of that infill are those designated in the door/window assembly style. Simple
panels need material assigned in the curtain wall style.
If you do not use materials to control the display properties of infills, you can specify their display properties in the
curtain wall unit style. The layer, color, linetype, and other display properties of the default infill are applied to all
infills unless you create a custom display component for each infill definition. You can then control the display of
each infill definition independently. For more information, see “
Specifying the Display of Curtain Wall Units ” on page
875.
Creating a Panel Infill for a Curtain Wall Unit
Use this procedure to create a simple panel infill to represent basic cladding materials in the curtain wall, such as a
stone wall panel, concrete panel, metal panel, or glazing infill.
Because curtain wall units can contain multiple infills, it is helpful to use a naming convention for panel infills that
indicates the infill location or purpose within the curtain wall unit. For example, L3-FL1- Stone Panel can identify a
stone panel in a third-level grid on Floor 1.
1 On the Format menu, click Style Manager.
2 Expand Architectural Objects, and expand Curtain Wall Unit Styles.
3 Select a curtain wall unit style.
4 Click the Design Rules tab.
5 In the left pane, select Infills under Element Definitions.
6 Click New Infill.
7 Enter a descriptive name for the infill.
8 Specify an alignment for the infill.
For more information, see “ Specifying an Alignment for a Curtain Wall Unit Infill ” on page 854.
9 Specify an offset for the infill.
For more information, see “ Specifying an Offset for a Curtain Wall Unit Infill ” on page 854.
10 Specify a thickness for the panel.
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