CAD IMAGE DOORS AND WINDOWS

[Anonymous]

I am thinking about ordering Cad Image doors and windows - but I have questions first and their site is not working or loading properly to get me to support or their forums.

And my trial version I downloaded is not working properly.

Appropriate to ask questions here?
Is there anyone here that can help me?

Questions:
1 Do they have their own markers?
2 Are you guys satisfied with their window schedules or do you use Archciad's?
3 Can I turn trim/casings off in window schedules?
4 Can I do custom mullion/divisions?
5 Custom casings?
6 Is their web site always not working well or is it just me, can some one check from their computer and see if they can get to all the different pages?

I would like to post a window schedule we like
here is a link to a drop box folder:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1xhcvtdhhjl1o4a/A818.pdf

7 We like to line up the windows relative to each other with our finish floor heights.
I can add the floor lines myself on the layouts or what ever, but can I show the elevation of the windows in the schedule relative to the first floor and can teh windows be to a scale?

[Anonymous]

Jesikuh123 wrote:
I am thinking about ordering Cad Image doors and windows - but I have questions first and their site is not working or loading properly to get me to support or their forums.

And my trial version I downloaded is not working properly.

Appropriate to ask questions here?
Is there anyone here that can help me?

Questions:
1 Do they have their own markers? Yes but you can use standard Archicad markers also or import your own.
2 Are you guys satisfied with their window schedules or do you use Archciad's? I use their schedules but they have a few foibles. eg. if you move an item when you update the schedule (and you have to update the whole schedule, not just selected doors / windows) it will move back to its original position and you have to move it again.
3 Can I turn trim/casings off in window schedules?
4 Can I do custom mullion/divisions? Yes. I have not met many windows I could not create, although your circular one might be a challenge with the uneven glazing bars
5 Custom casings? Limited
6 Is their web site always not working well or is it just me, can some one check from their computer and see if they can get to all the different pages? Working fine for me.

I would like to post a window schedule we like
here is a link to a drop box folder:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1xhcvtdhhjl1o4a/A818.pdf

7 We like to line up the windows relative to each other with our finish floor heights.
I can add the floor lines myself on the layouts or what ever, but can I show the elevation of the windows in the schedule relative to the first floor and can teh windows be to a scale?Yes

Note that my answers above are based on AC16 version, and I probably don't get as much out of the scheduling abilities as is possible. Karl O had some comments back in 2012, but things may have moved on a little since then. Old thread HERE

Hope some of this helps.

[Anonymous]

Thank You very much s2art - very helpful.

[Anonymous]

The thing I like about it most is that there is only one object (well, 2 actually, windows and doors, but you can use a window object and put a door in it too). One object creates fixed, sliding, awning, and bifold windows, or swinging, sliding, pocket, and bifold doors.

[Stress Co_]

Jesikuh123 wrote:
Do you guys find that these windows show up OK in window and door schedules?

I have this one problem:
Frame vs. Panel size
(Scroll down to my post)…

I callout a door by it's PANEL SIZE i.e.: 3'-0" x 8'-0"

Using an AC library door I get schedules, door settings, pop-up info tags to read the PANEL size.

With D+W B I get the overall frame size (i.e.: width=frame+panel+frame).

[Anonymous]

Well - about the door panel size not being available.
That really sucks.
in 13 That option has either not worked and not been available, now it is and i was excited about that - so now if I switch to D&W builder that option will be gone again?

[Anonymous]

Here is a page from one of our jobs using the cadimage d+w

[Anonymous]

Silly- simple question;
I can NOT figure out how to make just a french door panel with a plain simple frame around a big pane of glass, like a 4" frame all the way around the glass.

In my attachment here you'll see that I have a big pane of glass, but I can only find panels that go under the glass. And in the other door leaf you can see that i have a simple frame, but I can not figure out how to get that big panel to be glass instead of wood.

[Stress Co_]

Open the " Panel to Insert"

[Anonymous]

OH! thank you thank you thank!