Complex Profile Walls and corner windows

[David Shorter]

OK Graphisoft why is it that I cannot use the Corner Window option with Complex Walls.
Complex profiles are one of the most useful features in the current ArchCAD and corner windows are an architects dream but the two don't /can't come together.
When are we going to be able to place corner windows onto complex walls?

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

section

[Anonymous]

and the wall and footing as a Complex profile.

this is one of several wall types from a project I am working on and because it has several different split levels I found it easier to set the wall and footing together...it is so much easier and quicker than placing the footings seperately

[Barry Kelly]

Gareth wrote:
Not sure what you mean about 'module'.

For a module select the walls and windows in plan and then go to FILE menu > External Content > Save Selection as Module.

You will then have to ZIP the MOD file and attach it here or share a link to it via Dropbox or similar.

I can't use the corner window tool to add a corner window into a complex profile wall either.
I wonder what the trick is if there is one.

Barry.

[Anonymous]

Sorry mate, when I save it as a Module it saves as a Windows Media file...haven't got a clue what I'm doing !

Anyhow...there wasn't much involved in setting up a corner window.

Are you using the Corner Window tool from the Tool Box, or the Corner Window function from the Settings Dialogue Box ?

...for what it's worth I'm using it from the Toolbox.

I'll try the other way and see if that gives me any problems.

[Barry Kelly]

Gareth wrote:
Sorry mate, when I save it as a Module it saves as a Windows Media file...haven't got a clue what I'm doing !

That is fine - it just means you have a program that associated .MOD files with it (i.e. Window Media).
It is still and Archicad MOD file - just means you can't double click it to open it.


I was trying with the corner window tool in the tool box.
With a CP wall it is just places at the end of one wall.
With a standard wall it duplicates around the corner as it should.

Barry.

[Anonymous]

That's strange.

What is even more strange is that most often I don't know what I am doing wrong....in this case I don't know what I did right...!!

[David Shorter]

to go full circle we really need the corner window tool to work with Complex Walls.
At the moment it doesn't
Unless of course Gareth has really discovered a method.....
Gareth I know the feeling.....

[Anonymous]

I just tried the default 'Custom Wall' Complex Profile from the Wall Dialogue box to make sure I hadn't 'fluked' anything in my own set up.

It also worked ok.

Give it a try and see what happens.

[Barry Kelly]

Still no luck for me.
New and reset - custom complex profile wall or any of the other CP wall in the template.
Tried the built-in corner window object and also others from the GS AUS library - all with no luck.

Barry.