windows within niches

[Rakela Raul]

how do i put a window inside a niche?? where the thinner wall is...when you put a wdw in the thinner wall, ac reads the thicker wall.....share experience please, thx

[Anonymous]

how do i put a window inside a niche?? where the thinner wall is...when you put a wdw in the thinner wall, ac reads the thicker wall

Are you saying that you have 1 thicker and 1 thinner wall lined up next to each other or do you mean that the placed niche has made your originally thick wall thinner att that particular spot?

In any way, I believe that in the International library you need to pick the niche that resides in the Windows/Openings folder ("W Niche.gsm"). The niche inside Building Element's folder does not operate the same way.

[Rakela Raul]

your second statement susanne..thx for responding........
...........i will use the opening gsm, then draw a thinner wall inside the opening
and then put wdw in that thinner wall...then in plotmaker i will delete extra lines to make it look drawn properly.....another one of those so calld 'work arounds' seems to be...thx again and enjoy the weather

[Erika Epstein]

It used to be when one unchecked
"frame depth = wall depth"

that you could then set the frame depth independantly.
It would be good to have that back.

[Rakela Raul]

erika thx,
do u remember ac version??

[Rakela Raul]

i'm getting it back to you:
under "metal windows 9" "awning w awnU"
thx

[Anonymous]

your second statement susanne..thx for responding........
...........i will use the opening gsm, then draw a thinner wall inside the opening and then put wdw in that thinner wall...

you don't need to put a thinner wall to place a window inside the placed W Niche.gsm. Just "throw" the niche in and then place the window inside the niche. That works just fine.

[Erika Epstein]

I realize my photo post didn't get posted,
Perhaps this will help.
AC8.1 lib

[Rakela Raul]

thank u so much susanne and erika..it took me only till 3am to feel good about it....i played with 'frame depth' and i used the metal wdw in ac9 lib and a little bit of guess work..and it looks v decent now.....thx again