3-Panel Or More Sliding Windows

[Anonymous]

The standard AC9 library only has a horizontal-sliding window that has 2 panels.

Is there any object out there that can allow me to create a 3 (or more) panel sliding window easily?

[Seiss Wagner]

And here in plan "full detail" is what "s2art" is referring to:

[Seiss Wagner]

But the 3D view is not bad at all. Unfortunately, one cannot reconcile the plan view with the elevation.... it appears to be two different windows, which is better known in the world of software as "sloppy programing"

I am sorry Shingo, I guess I was mistaken, it looks like DoorWindow Builder won't be able to fulfill your needs.

However, it is still the most versatile modeler, that I have found, for doors and windows.

[Stress Co_]

Shingo wrote:
Is Cadimage DoorWindow Builder expensive to own? Do you think that the cost of it justifies its usage if I were to just create sliding windows with it?

Shingo:
Is it worth it? ... I'm not sure. I'm stuck halfway between using the Specical Edition Library and DoorWindow Builder. In the past, I wasted so much time trying to get special windows to look right using the AC9 Library that I purchased DoorWindow Builder. If it saved time it would be worth the cost, right? I haven't perfected using it (read: I'm wasting time with trial and error, trying to make things look right)... so no savings yet. The documentation is a bit weak (in my opinion)and a few bugs, but there is great potential.

It's $199.00 USD and you can find it here:

http://www.cadimagetools.com/home.php?page=products&PHPSESSID=fc454ec7938a2d248da763a24014b5a1

[Seiss Wagner]

The documentation is a bit weak (in my opinion)and a few bugs, but there is great potential.

I wish to take issue with Stress Co, I am not selling Cadimage products, but I think the 55 page reference manual provided with DoorWindow Builder puts the documentation provided by Graphisoft for the door and window package of the Special Edition Library to shame.

I have spent far more trial and error time working with the SE9 Library then I have ever spent guessing at DoorWindow Builder. That said, let me comment; the one mistake all these companies make is that they don't provide a glossary of terms, so you never really know what they mean when they use a word like "Architrave", because they don't define it. Then by trail and error, guess and by golly, you learn what they mean, and it is such a waste of time.

[Stress Co_]

Seiss wrote:

The documentation is a bit weak (in my opinion)and a few bugs, but there is great potential.

I wish to take issue with Stress Co, I am not selling Cadimage products, but I think the 55 page reference manual provided with DoorWindow Builder puts the documentation provided by Graphisoft for the door and window package of the Special Edition Library to shame.

I just re-reread the Cadimage Manual..... and maybe I should have said "soft" in a few places, instead of weak. ... and there's a Manual for the SE Library? ... I'll have to check that out.

Bottom Line for me.... (for out of the ordinary: doors, window and trims) some are easier & quicker to build using the SE Library.... are some with DoorWindow Builder.

[Anonymous]

This ArchiCAD 9 Special Edition Library...never heard of it.

I tried searching on the Graphisoft website for some info regarding this library...nothing appears.

This library ain't for free, right?

[Anonymous]

It's developed in the US for the US market, I believe.

[__archiben]

s2art wrote:
It's developed in the US for the US market, I believe.

go knock yourselves out:

http://tr.graphisoftus.com/

but: READ the disclaimers carefully: they are not cross-compatible with other libraries . . .

~/archiben

[Anonymous]

Hi Ben

Thanks for the link. Will take a look at this SE library.

While its still downloading, I was just wondering if loading this SE library together with the standard library would cause any conflicts.
Does the SE library replace or enrich the standard one?

[__archiben]

Shingo wrote:
While its still downloading, I was just wondering if loading this SE library together with the standard library would cause any conflicts.

in order to download the library you need to read a disclaimer that tells you all of that information. you have to click to say that you have read and understood. you clearly haven't.

READ the compatibility rules!

~/archiben