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512 | ChaPTER 12 Creating Walls and Curtain Walls

Figure 12.47
sample curtain
wall storefront
type

Select the sample of storefront wall in the exercise file and click the Edit Type button in the
Properties palette. The settings that drive the generation of this type of wall are relatively easy
to understand. Let’s review some important options related to these properties:
Automatically Embed When you enable this option, any instance of this curtain wall type
will embed itself inside other wall segments. This is useful for modeling extended areas of rib-
bon or strip glazing (Figure 12.48) instead of using a window family.

Figure 12.48
The automatically
embed option
allows curtain
walls to be placed
inside basic walls.

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