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Building Materials Priorities not working for Doors/Windows

Anonymous
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Hi All,

We are having difficulties with building material priorities in relation to our Cadimage Doors/Windows.
We are finding the floor finish on our slab composite is not cutting through the door/window section (see image).

The difficult thing we are finding is pinpointing what the actual building material is for the door/window. It has options of surface overrides (for each element, sill, frame, leaf etc.), and fills applied in section. If we go with 'use material' for the door/window it makes the whole thing from one material (so no differentiation between glazed panels and frames).

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

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Barry Kelly
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Doors and windows are objects and objects do not use Building Materials.
They only have surfaces as you noted.

Have a look at how your wall interacts with the slab without any door or window.

If your door/windows have sills and trims/architraves you may find that the floor finishes may pass through them but they should be cut by the wall.

Barry.
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Anonymous
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Thanks Barry - that's exactly what it is doing - so I suppose the architraves will just have to overlap the floor finishes and hopefully not be too obvious at 1:100.