Windows with chamfered reveals?

[Anonymous]

Please can someone advise how you would model a window in a thick wall with chamfered jambs, head and cill on both the inside and outside - such as a slit wall in a castle for example. Would you use SEOs to create the opening first and then somehow place in the glass window inside a thinner centrally placed wall sitting inside the chamfered opening or is there another way?

Nats

[Anonymous]

Hi Nats,


No need to to get into SEOs to do what you want!

Its easy to adjust window reveal angle and size in the window settings. See attached images.

Then just place it in a thick wall like you would do with a standard window.

Any window can be set to have custom reveals, so just choose the one thats closest to what you need and adjust the dimensions to suit.

Hope thats clear!


Cheers,

Pete.

[Anonymous]

Here's wot it looks like!!

[Anonymous]

Hmmm thanks I have noticed that before - but it doesnt include sloping reveals on the inner face as well as the outer. I need to do both unfortunately (bloody Victorian architects mumble mumble).

Nats

[Anonymous]

Hi Nats,

Sorry, didn't read your question fully!

I think it is possible to do what you want, but you are going to have to get tricky.

Personally, if there is only a couple in your building, I'd build individual shapes using the mesh tool and save them as dumb library parts in the correct orientation to SEO from the outer face of the wall. Patch the 2d view to get it to display on plan correctly.

If there are many in the building of differing size I'd be tempted to edit the library part to make it more intelligent and do some of the work for you. You could make it so you could adjust the width, height and splay angle parametrically and how it displays in 2d. More work but maybe useful in future jobs.

Maybe GS will add it to the window settings in a future version hopefully.

(I'd also like an empty door opening that you could set different reveal settings if they are reading this! as I don't think you can turn off the actual frame and door currently)

The attached shows the original mesh and the library part SEOed from the wall. (I haven't bothered to patch the 2d.)

There are probably other (better?) ways of doing it as well, feel free to add them below anyone!

[Anonymous]

nats wrote:
Hmmm thanks I have noticed that before - but it doesnt include sloping reveals on the inner face as well as the outer. I need to do both unfortunately (bloody Victorian architects mumble mumble).

Nats

Yeah, that double chamfer looks like a bear to do.

You guys are lucky at least to have the single side chamfer. The US library only has an empty opening which has to be added to and aligned with an actual window.

Aside from making custom windows or working with SEOs and patches, the only fairly simple way to do it is to put two walls back to back and align the window in one with an empty, chamfered opening in the other.

[Anonymous]

Putting two walls together is a very good idea but will they meld together correctly or shaw a line between them? I'll have to try it out. I cant possibly begin to change library objects myself - Ive had a look and it all seems very complicated, even with my past basic programming knowledge!

SEOs would be a possible way to go but its a pain having hidden cutting objects all around the place. You should be able to just click the wall and model a new opening in it directly by using the mouse in 3d! But I suppose thats just too simple! Introduce things like that and the program might become more architect friendly. Although I suppose thats what Sketch Up has done which is probably why its taken the architectural market by storm.

[Anonymous]

The trick with the walls is to use composites and make the back side contour line white (at least in the printing pen set). As long as the fills are the same the same they will clean up in section.

[Anonymous]

Very crafty.

I know someone here who did something similar to model sloping jambs inside and out using loads of separate polygonal walls but he didnt have to model sloping cills or heads. And I dont know how they would appear in perspective - probably would have loads of lines between them.

Some good solutions here cheers.

[rob2218]

I tracked down this post....and I too have the same issue.
Splayed edges in the doors on both "INTERIOR" and "EXTERIOR" faces of the wall. How to accomplish?
Come on guys...I like your crafty "void" mesh solution but really? Do we need to do this every darn door or window that requires a double splayed chamfered edges??? at the jambs.