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    #1

    Wall Banding technique

    We have previously used Model Lines to define horizontal banding on walls. This usually leads to unhappiness.

    We are now testing using a Curtain Wall.
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    * Curtain Panel is defined to be our desired Basic Wall type,
    * Horizontal Grid Spacing is set to the desired banding height
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    This seems to work, allowing us to Cut in Curtain Wall Windows objects successfully.
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    What is problematic is standard Door and Window items.
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    But this should not be an issue as we will use our Curtain Wall doors and Windows.

    Are there other problems we might encounter with this curtain wall method?
    Is this a good technique to use?

    Thanking you in advance.
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    Stacked walls, for me. No way I would do this with Curtain Walls.

    Sent from my Phablet. Please excuse typos... and bad ideas.

    Aaron Maller
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    Parallax Team, Inc.
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      #3
      Thanks for the quick reply and the tip, Aaron. However...

      A simple stacked wall with three instances of my desired wall does not show the banding.
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      I can see that defining a new wall slightly thinner wall and inserting that in my definition will create banding.
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      However, individual walls can't be less than around 35mm which does not allow me to show a skinny (nominal) banding.
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      I'm really after the simple single line banding. Is there a way to achieve this please?

      Also, what are the reasons you avoid the Curtain Wall method?

      Thanking you.

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        #4
        Sorry... I had "assumed" there was something "different" about the bands, even if it was something as simple as paint color or finish color., in which case i would be using different basic walls in the stacked wall. Let me ask you this: Whats actually HAPPENING at the lines? What is the "line" meant to represent, when you say its a "band?"

        The attachment, for instance, is all stacked walls. They are all the same wall makeup, just different types of stone. Set in a Stacked Wall in alternating fashion.
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          #5
          Thank you again.

          Originally posted by Twiceroadsfool View Post
          ...What is the "line" meant to represent, when you say its a "band?"
          We don't know yet. The designers are not ready to commit. It might be a rebate score in a concrete panel, but at this stage we just want to see a single line.

          I did wonder if a duplicate material for alternate bands might do the trick and I can see that it does. Thank you. I'll give that a go.

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            #6
            Yessir. Once it becomes a rebate/reveal, that then just gets put in the basic wall, and it shows up in all of the bands, which is nice.
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              #7
              Thank you.

              Originally posted by Twiceroadsfool View Post
              Yessir. Once it becomes a rebate/reveal, that then just gets put in the basic wall, and it shows up in all of the bands, which is nice.
              Provided it is a >35mm rebate and not a 10mm or so score.

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                #8
                Originally posted by anthonyB View Post
                Provided it is a >35mm rebate and not a 10mm or so score.
                No harm modelling the latter, it's just as much geometry.

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                  #9
                  While not quite the best solution for what you are doing in this case, you can also use the cut tool to embed one wall in another. Works particularly well for vertical elements.
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by anthonyB View Post
                    Thank you.


                    Provided it is a >35mm rebate and not a 10mm or so score.
                    I had to wait until morning, as my brain was foggy on the mm to inches conversion. But i put reveals in basic wall types all the time, that are less than 1" tall. To check, i made this reveal 1/4" (1/8" radius). Thats 6.35mm across, top to bottom. I am able to put it in the basic wall definition, and then put that basic wall in the stacked wall. :shrug:
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