Reading a discussion in the Autodesk forums today I realized that this topic is something that comes up often and not everyone may know if this solution so it deserved a post.
When modeling a curtain wall, no matter as a window, storefront or as a curtain wall in at a corner there can be an issue where the automatically embedded curtain wall cuts the openings on each wall but fails to cut the end portion out of the wall, as seen in figure 1.
I have seen several suggestions to edit the profile of the wall, or add an in-place void or use the wall opening command. All of these suggestions work but if the curtain wall changes then the user has to change the element they used to cut the opening.
There is another way…
There isn’t any need for edit profile or adding openings or any crazy work around for that. Curtain walls look to their origin point (green dashed line see Figure 5) to understand where to cut the walls. That origin of the curtain wall must lie…