Create opening from door

[Achille Pavlidis]

I want to create an opening from a door. Is this possible? When I select the door and then click at "Create opening" nothing happens. Is there a limitation on which elements create openings?

[Steve Jepson]

Achille wrote:
OK, here's what I'm trying to do: I have a wall with openings and I want to place an external cladding. This cladding is a second wall placed outside with a small gap. I want to have the openings cut through the exterior cladding and adjust the cutting to the cladding depending on the size and position of the doors and windows that may vary. I can do this with the opening tool, but I have to manually resize and reposition the opening every time I make a change to a door or window. I would like to have this done automatically with associated opening to the specific door/window.

If you make that outer wall by dragging a copy of the inner wall with the door in it, at least you will have openings in the correct location and they can be edited for size at the same time, individually, or in groups. It is just a matter of changing the outer wall type and editing the doors. Turn off the outer casing of the door of the interior wall, and turn off the inner casing of the outer door. Also use the empty door panel in the outside wall. Are you sure you need to be using two walls for this? Sometimes I do it, but it is pretty rare situation. Show us a picture of the wall assembly you want. Perhaps there is some clever way not to do it with just one wall ? The reason I have used more than one wall to model a Wall, is for the sake of some special Interactive Schedules. Not for the sake of graphics or geometry. Just curious about your wall.

[Steve Jepson]

DGSketcher wrote:

Achille wrote:
OK, here's what I'm trying to do: I have a wall with openings and I want to place an external cladding. This cladding is a second wall placed outside with a small gap. I want to have the openings cut through the exterior cladding and adjust the cutting to the cladding depending on the size and position of the doors and windows that may vary. I can do this with the opening tool, but I have to manually resize and reposition the opening every time I make a change to a door or window. I would like to have this done automatically with associated opening to the specific door/window.

One for the WISHLIST. I get frustrated carving up walls for different finishes, it would be great to associate a separate wall finish with a core structure without being tied to the core wall length & height. I would hope that any openings could adapt to the applied finishes.

Sounds a bit like my wish for Adjustable Wall Skins. Walls could be something you lock or unlock with a check box. Adjust/edit the skins and lock it back up. I have been wishing for that since before we had Complex Profiles. I was hoping the a Complex Profile could have its parts adjustable in 3D.
An additional feature I would like to have for walls would be elements like furring strips that are horizontal and/or vertical. And would it really be that difficult to make doors and windows functional as operators or targets with SEO ?

[Barry Kelly]

Steve wrote:
I was hoping the a Complex Profile could have its parts adjustable in 3D.

Don't forget we now have modifiers in complex profiles.
You can add a skin to a complex profile wall with a modifier for its height and or thickness.
Then in 3D you can stretch this on a wall by wall basis (all walls are controlled independently).
These 'modified' skins can be stretched to a zero value so they disappear.
For example you can have waist high tiling on some walls but not others - all using the same complex profile wall.
And door/window holes are cut automatically in the tiles.


Barry.

[Schmidt]

As it has already been pointed out, there has to be a collison for the Create Openings function to do what is wanted here. A workaround could be to set the door with a Reveal so that the door actually collides with the other wall, use the Create Opening function and then move the door back to its original location. Maybe (hopefully) someone has a better option?

But i find it strange that there isn't a function for this, as it is for the Opening Tool. Definetly something that should be on the wishlist, in my opinion.