I create an
Arch Wall and then add
Arch Windows or Doors in the Walls. However, if I want to move the Windows to another position, it's quite difficult to move the underlying
PartDesign_NewSketch. The sketch has a very strange orientation and rotation, so changing these values often doesn't produce a good result.
For example, a Door that is aligned with the X axis has a Sketch with this placement information: Angle 90 degrees, Axis [1,0,0]. It's rotated over the X axis so that it looks "standing up"?
- FreeCad_Arch_Door_01_X.png (57.79 KiB) Viewed 882 times
A door that is aligned with the Y axis has a Sketch with this placement: Angle 120 degrees, Axis [0.5774, -0.5774, -0.5774]. It has a rotation of 120 degrees over a very strange axis. What do those numbers represent, 0.5774? It's the square root of 3, divided by 3.
- FreeCad_Arch_Door_02_Y.png (59.28 KiB) Viewed 882 times
It seems to me that it's not really practical to move a door out of its position once it's already been placed in a particular Wall with a particular orientation. What if I have a very elaborate Window, with many wires, and I need to move it from one Wall to another one? Is there an easy way of doing this, without recreating the entire Sketch and the properties of the
Arch Window?
What I've done in the past is just copy the Door or Window many times, and move the Sketch. They have the same orientation (Angle and Axis), just the Position (X, Y, Z coordinates) changes.
