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very bizarre sill extensions

Anonymous
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something new every day, you know...today, for no reason I can discern, my windows have these wacky-WACKY!-projections in elevation and in 3D. They are not visible in plan. The corner windows are simply windows, not a corner window. But they are set up to gang on both sides, anyway, so I can't figure out what is going on...thank you...

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Anonymous
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2 hours no corner window functionality!

selected corner window tool, picked a window from the Library, clicked on the wall, this is what I get... see PDF
Erika Epstein
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Ghassan.
It would be helpful to those who might have an answer if you told us what steps you are taking.

For example step 1 is choosing the corner window tool...2 sleect your window...3 place your cursor on the wall corner etc.
Erika
Architect, Consultant
MacBook Pro Retina, 15-inch Yosemite 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Mac OSX 10.11.1
AC5-18
Onuma System

"Implementing Successful Building Information Modeling"
Anonymous
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Erika

steps are:

select the Corner Window tool.
Double Click on Tool Icon to open settings box.
Navigate to the AC90 Library to the Windows folder and select a wood window: fixed window. (I tried multiple windows)
check to make sure, sill height, head, width etc are OK.
Then I would navigate the mouse/cursor over the reference line of one of the two intersecting walls so that I get the mercedes sign.
I click to place the windows
And voila! no corner window (see PDF from previous post) it places the window such that it projects past the corner as a regular window.
Erika Epstein
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When you place your cursor, wait until you get a checkmark at the corner of the wall.
Erika
Architect, Consultant
MacBook Pro Retina, 15-inch Yosemite 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Mac OSX 10.11.1
AC5-18
Onuma System

"Implementing Successful Building Information Modeling"
Anonymous
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Still not working. Someone mentioned something about turning on corner window "functionality". where is this? window settings?, prefs?

When I mouse over the reference edge and wait, all I get is the mercedes sign, no check mark at the corner.



1st test: I click to place when I get mercedes sign - no good
2nd test: if I mouse over the corner of the wall and get a check sign - no good
3rd test: in 3D Window, using the Corner Window tool, works fine! This is however very tricky especially when you have complex models with many walls. The only way to place a corner window in the 3D view is to navigate to the wall reference edge whcih is sometimes near impossible with complex models.

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