Feature Request: Custom Profiles for Frames and Casings in Doors and Windows

[giovanni benetti]

Feature Request: Custom Profiles for Frames and Casings

One of Archicad’s strengths is the flexibility of its door and window library, which allows for extensive customization. However, while it is already possible to insert custom leaf profiles, there is currently no way to define custom profiles for frames and casings.

Introducing this feature would bring several benefits:

• Full control over frame profiles, allowing for more accurate representation of real-world construction details.
• Custom casing profiles, improving precision in architectural finishes.
• Seamless integration within parametric settings, enhancing both design flexibility and consistency.

The lack of this customization option feels like a limitation, especially considering how powerful the rest of the system already is. Implementing it would be a natural and valuable enhancement, making door and window modeling even more versatile and precise.

[NateLumen]

Feature request: @giovanni benetti becomes part time software development consultant at Graphisoft.

[dormanassociates]

I would like to strongly voice my interest for this feature.

[Candys Angel]

Very interested to see this feature rolled out in the next update.

[Barry Kelly]

It would be nice, but probably not as easy as it sounds.

Head, sill, and style, frames can all be different in the same window.

Then these will have to connect with each other and with dividing frames (horizontal transoms and vertical mullions).

And then every frame type will be different as well (sliding, awning, fixed, casement, etc.).

And of course the huge increase in polygons as you get more accurate frames.

I find keeping the frames as simple (blocky) as possible and then having an accurate large scale detail when necessary is the way to go.

Barry.