To Create a Curtain Wall Style

Use this procedure to create a curtain wall style. You can create a style using default style properties or by copying an existing style. After you create the style, you edit the style properties to customize the characteristics of the style. You can also create a curtain wall tool based on the newly created curtain wall style. When you use the tool to add curtain walls, each curtain wall has the style specific to the tool.

  1. Click Manage tab Style & Display panel Style Manager . Find
  2. Expand Architectural Objects Curtain Wall Styles.
  3. Create a new curtain wall style:
    If you want to create a style … Then …
    with default properties right-click Curtain Wall Styles, and click New.
    from an existing style right-click the curtain wall style you want to copy, and click Copy. Right-click, and click Paste.
    from a curtain wall, curtain wall unit, or door and window assembly in the drawing right-click Curtain Wall Styles, and click New. Right-click the new style, click Set From, and then select a curtain wall, a curtain wall unit, or a door and window assembly in the drawing.
  4. If necessary, right-click the style again, and click Rename to enter a descriptive name for the new curtain wall style.
  5. Edit the new curtain wall style.
  6. When you finish specifying the properties of the curtain wall style, click OK.
  7. If you want to assign the style to a curtain wall tool, drag the style from the Style Manager to a tool palette.

    You can later rename the tool and specify other properties for it.

  8. Click OK.