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Curved arched window

Anonymous
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I'm currently modelling a historic building and so I am also modelling the quirks of an old Victorian building. Is there any way to customise a curved window to have an arched top? Seems like It's one or the other at the moment. I'm still running Archicad 21
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Hmooslechner
Rockstar
You can make any kind of window for Yourself by drawing it in 3D parallel to the ground and safe it as library-part.

German but You should be able to follow it:

AC5.5-AC27EduAut, PC-Win10, MacbookAirM1, MacbookM1Max, Win-I7+Nvidia
Dali_
Contributor
The video by Hmooslechner is good (even if you do not read Deutsch!). There is also a good ArchiCAD Help article here: https://help.graphisoft.com/AC/20/INT/index.htm?rhcsh=1&rhnewwnd=0&rhmapid=#t=AC20Help%2F03_1_Elemen...

I have attached an example of what you can create with a 'custom window'; I made a window with a Gothic arch and lead glass panels (tracery).
Our Infinite Openings tool does any shape and contains a lot of other capabilities: https://cadswift.com.au/products/Infinite-Openings.html
scroll to the bottom of the page for the reviews.

The videos in the link above a mostly old, though we have current user guide videos here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcbNDcsCZtyr9OfByqKKMVylqG7SUjGDj
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Creator of Infinite Openings and Component Catalogues
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