topic Re: Display the height of openings in Documentation

Display the height of openings

KJ-Architect — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:41:18 GMT

Dimensions of openings don't appear on the outside of a window but do appear on the inside.

Re: Display the height of openings

KJ-Architect — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 13:07:24 GMT

In Archicad 23 it was possible to put dimensions on the outside. Can someone help us to figure out how to put the dimensions of the height on both sides?

Re: Display the height of openings

Mahmoud Qenawi — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:42:14 GMT

You can show window marker via MVO regarding window section.

Re: Display the height of openings

Barry Kelly — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 01:06:36 GMT

I am not quite sure what you mean by 'both sides', and you don't say what version of Archicad you are using if not 23.

You can add the window height to a dimension in the settings for the dimension in version 26, just like you could in 23.

Nothing has changed that I know of.

Barry.

Re: Display the height of openings

KJ-Architect — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 07:48:18 GMT

We use Archicad 27 now.
The dimension details settings are on. On the inside of the window the dimensions show the height of the window. But on the outside the opening in the wall is smaller and we need the dimensions on de outside of the wall.

Re: Display the height of openings

Barry Kelly — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 08:33:44 GMT

@KJ-Architect wrote:

But on the outside the opening in the wall is smaller and we need the dimensions on de outside of the wall.

That means you want to dimension the window reveal.

As that is not the actual window size, that is why it does not show the height.

I don't know if there is a way to dimension the width and height of the window reveal, because I don't use reveals and i don't use the default Archicad windows either.

So maybe someone else can say if it can be done or not.

You can still dimension the inside nodes of the window and place the dimension on the outside (rather than dimensioning the reveal).

But if you do want to dimension the reveal, i am sorry i don't know.

Barry.

Re: Display the height of openings

Heftor — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 14:36:11 GMT

@KJ-Architect , your post mentioned you had with the same problem as us. I'm dealing with a very similar issue while working on historical construction.

We need to schedule and show just the reveal height of the window opening in the wall, not the total height of the window object itself.

Could you please share how you solved this? Any details about your method would be incredibly helpful.

Thanks in advance!

Hector