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■ Use curtain wall units and door and window assemblies to simplify the complexity of a curtain wall style. ■ Name the styles for doors, windows, curtain wall units, AEC polygons, and curtain walls to indicate where they are used and what they are. ■ Use cell and edge overrides to define special conditions not accounted for in the curtain wall style. Creating Element Definitions for a Curtain Wall Style Element definitions determine the appearance of the four basic curtain wall elements. There is a different definition type for each element. Curtain wall grid element types Each type of element can have multiple definitions. For example, you can define a division to create a horizontal grid or a vertical grid, and you can define the cells to contain a nested grid or a door/window assembly. To make reuse easier, you can save the element definitions, and then assign them to grids, cells, frames, or mullions as needed. Element definitions are style-specific. When you create element definitions for a specific curtain wall style, those definitions are available only for curtain walls of that style. For example, if you define a door and window assembly infill for one curtain wall style, that infill is not available as an option when you edit a curtain wall of a different style. When you create a new element definition, like a new grid division, a new frame, cell infill, or mullion, you need to define a display component for this element in order to control the visual appearance (layer, color, and linetype properties) of this element separately from the other elements. For example, if you have defined a new panel infill, and want to assign a concrete gray color to that, you need to define a display component for the new infill, and assign it a grey color. For information on defining display components for elements, see "Adding Curtain Wall Element Definitions as Display Components" on page 799. If you do not define a display component for a new element, its display will be controlled by the display component of the default element of that type. For example, if you have a new panel infill, but do not define a display component for it, then its display is controlled by the default infill display component. Creating 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 Format menu ➤ Style Manager. 2 Expand Architectural Objects, and expand 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. 764 | Chapter 19 Curtain Walls