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How do I model this window?

Mats_Knutsson
Advisor
Or did I miss something in the libraries? I did this sketch with walls only which is not what I want.
Thankful for suggestions.
Mats

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Mats_Knutsson
Advisor
The best cheat so far is to model a custom window with the correct angle. I used the roof tool for this. It's all in all a couple of minutes. Downside is that 2D plan view looks crap and that I can't stretch the window and that I need to make a new custom one for each different size and wall angle.

Would be great if there already was a complete window that I could use instead af the cheat.

Cheaty
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Barry Kelly
Moderator
But can the window be manufactured?
Because the head and sill frames are not square to the side frames the profiles won't match and the corner mitres will be a nightmare.
All the frames will have to be specially made.
Barry.
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Mats_Knutsson
Advisor
Barry wrote:
But can the window be manufactured?
Because the head and sill frames are not square to the side frames the profiles won't match and the corner mitres will be a nightmare.
All the frames will have to be specially made.
Barry.
Specially made yes.
I could cad-wise be ok if the wallhole had horisontal bottom and top.
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Barry Kelly
Moderator
Mats_Knutsson wrote:
I could cad-wise be ok if the wallhole had horisontal bottom and top.
The wallhole command does have an optional direction vector that would allow you to do this.
I have never tried it so not sure exactly how it works.
You should be able to obtain the wall angle through GDL but I'm not entirely sure how to translate this to the optional 'x,y,z' values in the wallhole command.
I am pretty sure it will be the 'y' value you want to adjust but not sure by how much.

Barry.
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Barry Kelly
Moderator
It is actually a combination of the 'y' & 'z' values you need to use.
The wall angle is the wall slope -90 (because a vertical wall has a slope of 90°).

The wallhole command I used for this is simply ...

wallhole 5,1,
0,0,15 ,
a,0,15 ,
a,b,15 ,
0,b,15 ,
0,0,15 ,
x,y,z


Where I added parameters for x, y & z in the parameter list so they could be adjusted as necessary - but you could get that info through GDL directly from the wall.

Barry.
One of the forum moderators.
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Mats_Knutsson
Advisor
It will be delivered as prefabricated wall elements with windows and all. Expensive stuff.

/Mats
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