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Skylights

Anonymous
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hi I try make Skylights in GDL and made it but I have two problem

1 sky light not slope as roof slope just how I made it and if change roof slope some mistake happen

2 sky light hole only Regular rectangular and I did not found like <wellhole>

I hope in AC 15 sky light is made like door and windows by save 3d model
thank
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Barry Kelly
Moderator
Are you using the skylight tool (11, 12 & 13 have this as well) or are you just placing with the object tool?
The skylight tool will behave in the roof like the window does in a wall.
Barry.
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Anonymous
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You have to adjust the subtype of the object to skylight (roofwindow)
Barry Kelly
Moderator
ila2 wrote:
You have to adjust the subtype of the object to skylight (roofwindow)
Yes this is true.
Make sure you save your object with the correct subtype.

However you can still place it using just the object tool - which you do not want to do as it will not be associated to the roof.
Make sure you use the skylight tool to place it (won't be available there unless you have set the skylight subtype).

Barry.
One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
Dell XPS- i7-6700 @ 3.4Ghz, 16GB ram, GeForce GTX 960 (2GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11
Anonymous
Not applicable
thank
ila2 wrote:
You have to adjust the subtype of the object to skylight (roofwindow)


Yes this is true.
Make sure you save your object with the correct subtype.

However you can still place it using just the object tool - which you do not want to do as it will not be associated to the roof.
Make sure you use the skylight tool to place it (won't be available there unless you have set the skylight subtype).

Barry.


I did that .... my problem is :


1 sky light not slope as roof slope just how I made it and if change roof slope some mistake happen

2 sky light hole only Regular rectangular and I did not found like <wellhole>

thank
Anonymous
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1.) Did you use the buit-in ac_roofang parameter to slope the skylight?
2.) Yes the skylight hole could be only Rectangular (up to 14). No "Roofhole".