Arch window presets

[yorik]

The Arch Window tool is finally a bit easier to use. Besides the normal "start sketching on a face" mode that it already had, it now has several presets:



It works like this:

1) if you have a face of a wall, struct or roof selected when pressing the window button, you go into "start from scratch" mode which allows you to draw a sketch on that face.
2) if you have nothing selected, you enter a more generic mode where you can:
a) draw from scratch by picking a face on a wall, struct or roof
b) select a preset, and adjust its parameters. You can then pick a point in the space or on an existing wall, struct or roof
3) After creation, if you used a preset, the general height and width are parametric and can be changed via the properties. The other parameters can also be changed, either by editing the underlying sketch or double-clicking the window object in the tree to change the extrusion parameters.

More presets should come, and the whole editing system should be refined, but it already allows for a lot of different windows...

[bernd]

wow, excellent. A window generator. I'm impressed.

[paullee]

Hi there,

Whilst I am experimenting making cladding to turn into recessed surfaces of wall openings for windows (discussed in another thread), I am wondering if somewhere in FC it can separate the window frame from panes automatically (e.g when exporting to obj)

I have multi storeys buildIngs, and there are hundreds of windows that i need to separate frame from panes in blender e.g before i can render.

Any idea? Thanks.

[yorik]

There is no ready tool for that, but it's easy to do with a little macro:

Code: Select all

import FreeCADGui,Part,Draft
for obj in FreeCADGui.Selection.getSelection():
    if Draft.getType(obj) == "Window":
        if len(obj.Shape.Solids) > 1:
            for solid in obj.Shape.Solids:
                Part.show(solid)

[joancabeza]

It would be easy to add a "hole/gap window preset"? I know that you can do it manually but there are a lot of situations where you need it and it would be a fast way to create a hole in a wall (or a slab?)

[bitacovir]

It would be easy to add a "hole/gap window preset"? I know that you can do it manually but there are a lot of situations where you need it and it would be a fast way to create a hole in a wall (or a slab?)

After you insert a window on a wall, just press space keybar. Then you will have a empty gap.

[joancabeza]

It would be easy to add a "hole/gap window preset"? I know that you can do it manually but there are a lot of situations where you need it and it would be a fast way to create a hole in a wall (or a slab?)

After you insert a window on a wall, just press space keybar. Then you will have a empty gap.

True. Good trick. Simply hide the window, and you still have control of the dimensions. But that means that you still have a fixed window in your model and it might have problems in the IFC export. This window will appear.
Anyway, it works.

[yorik]

I think using a window to make a hole in a wall is overkill... Easier to add a simple box. We could override the box tool in BIM to allow to add a box graphically, the Arch way...

[bitacovir]

We could override the box tool in BIM to allow to add a box graphically, the Arch way...

Architects... so basic, simple minds...