topic Re: Wall contourlines with window to the floor? in Modeling

Wall contourlines with window to the floor?

Mats_Knutsson — Fri, 26 May 2023 13:09:23 GMT

I got stuck on a question from a customer today. They have windows that goes down to the wall and the want the wall contour lines to show in the plan. See attachment. Is this doable without 2D lines?
Cheers,
Mats

Re: Wall contourlines with window to the floor?

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:52:17 GMT

Mats,
If you elevate the window off the floor by 1 mm and have the
2D wall framing set on the left-most button (the one showing the
sill lines) then the wall contour lines should show.
Peter Devlin

Re: Wall contourlines with window to the floor?

TomWaltz — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:59:42 GMT

Mats_Knutsson wrote:
I got stuck on a question from a customer today. They have windows that goes down to the wall and the want the wall contour lines to show in the plan. See attachment. Is this doable without 2D lines?
Cheers,
Mats

If you actually want the window height to be accurate, you just turn on the "Wall Contour Line" parameter under the 2D Settings. You can pick one side, both sides, or neither.

Re: Wall contourlines with window to the floor?

Mats_Knutsson — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:51:50 GMT

TomWaltz wrote:
Mats_Knutsson wrote:
I got stuck on a question from a customer today. They have windows that goes down to the wall and the want the wall contour lines to show in the plan. See attachment. Is this doable without 2D lines?
Cheers,
Mats
If you actually want the window height to be accurate, you just turn on the "Wall Contour Line" parameter under the 2D Settings. You can pick one side, both sides, or neither.

Well, it doesn't work when the window goes all the way down to the wall bottom. As Peter Devlin wrote I can elevate the window 1mm but I would prefer not to do that beacuse of measuring issues. Basically I understand that the plan definition that when a window goes down to the wall bottom , the wall lines shouldn't be visible because there is no wall, just a window... I will sleep on this one one for a cuople of days and maybe I will create a workaround.

Re: Wall contourlines with window to the floor?

TomWaltz — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:45:23 GMT

Mats_Knutsson wrote:
Well, it doesn't work when the window goes all the way down to the wall bottom.

Really? It worked for me (I tested it before I recommended it)

Re: Wall contourlines with window to the floor?

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:44:32 GMT

Mats,
As Tom says, AC 9 windows do have a parameter to show or hide sill lines.
This parameter is not in the 2D turn-down pane but in the Parameter list.
When Tom posted that information, I initially thought he was referring
to the 2D turn-down pane but then I checked the 2D settings in the
parameter list and sure enough there it was. In windows prior to AC 9
there is no such parameter so you have to do the bit the old fashioned way.
Peter Devlin

Re: Wall contourlines with window to the floor?

Mats_Knutsson — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:07:27 GMT

Oops,
Sorry guys for taking your time. The fault is our own. We have a few "swedish" basic windows that we use almost all the time. This issue was with the swedish window. As you say it works with the normal AC window. It's a bug of ours! I blush in warm red.
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