Closure Type and Casing Settings

[Steve Jepson]

I am growing weary of having to change my casing widths, thickness, offsets...if I happen to change the Closure type.

When I go to the bother of configuring 10 or 20 settings ( I am not sure how many), the last thing I want to do is enter all that data again.

As it is, if you change the Closure Type from Stud Wall to Stud Wall With Siding or something, you will have to reconfigure the Casing settings again. It is tedious enough the first time.

The only way I know of to avoid this is to be sure I set the closure type first, then configure the casing settings.

But that is not always possible because the doors are being copied or syringed form one wall type into another. I almost never the casing settings. Just the Closure type. And if I do need to change some casing setting because of that, I don't like having to re-due all of them.

This is a big time waster for me.

Is there some way to make sure the casing settings will stay the way you want them even when you change the Closure Type?

[Erika Epstein]

Option click on the window whose casing you like and then option/alt +command/ctrl click on the preview of the window type you want in the bottom left of the window settings box. You will still have to change the size of the window, but this is far less time consuming than what you are doing.

[Steve Jepson]

Erika wrote:
Option click on the window whose casing you like and then option/alt +command/ctrl click on the preview of the window type you want in the bottom left of the window settings box. You will still have to change the size of the window, but this is far less time consuming than what you are doing.

I am a PC user so I don't understand your " option/alt +command/ctrl click" instructions.

If your talking about using the syringe to pick up and transfer settings you have missed the point.

The times when this is a problem is when there are no windows or doors in a wall that has the correct Closure type yet.

Anytime you change the Closure type for a window it will automatically revert the Casing Settings back to a default instead of leaving them as you have already configured them. This means that you can't simply move a door you have carefully configured the Casing setting for and use it in a wall that requires a different Closure type. If you know of some way to keep the Casing settings when you change the Closure type ---that is what I would like to know. This may be what you just explained and I didn't understand. ?

Bottom left of window settings box ? I don't know what you mean. What is in that corner that is related to this?
This could be something new to me.