Cladding wall in MEP

[hoss 10]

Hi,

 

Is there anyway to create Cladding walls in MEP.

I am drawing a big warehouse, that the outside all is just metal cladding.

Is there a tool to make this, or do I have to draw a section and extrude it.

 

Thanks

[tzframpton 34]

You can use the WallAdd command on the Architecture Palette. Just make your dimensions accurate. If you wanted to get fancy, or save for future uses, then create a style with all necessary dimensions and parameters in place, then add a material to it simulating the "look" of the wall.

[hoss 10]

 

 

I am using these Dimensions, with 5mm thickness

 

I draw a polyline replicating the above image, then used walladd and set width to 5mm and height to 3m and went over the polyline to create the cladding sheet.

 

The part that I am not following is creating the style. Does creating style means that when I deploy walladd with the saved style I get __/---\__ instead of standard recangular wall?

[tzframpton 34]

In the Style Manager, under Architectural Objects > Wall Styles, this is where you create a new one.

 

Alternatively, you can check out the stock Wall Styles directly from Autodesk at this location:

C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\MEP 2011\enu\Styles\Metric

 

Open up the different DWG files named Wall Styles and check out how they did there's. Through the years, this is how I figured out how to make decent AEC Walls by reverse engineering what they did.

[hoss 10]

Thank you very much

I realy appreciate your help