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Nice. There are a ton of variations in windows, surrounds & treatments. But I think it's a major component, and constructing a parametric object that can deal with most of the variables is pretty important to modern architectural CAD software. A lot of the third party plug-ins like WinDoor and InfoEditor were great and seemed like a way to make Vectorworks more powerful, but the idea kind of foundered on the economics of a non-integrated development environment when the business model requires yearly updates and a subscription relationship with users. Too much maintenance.

Basically, you have it. In woodframe construction the window sill is integral to the window, and has a different profile from the side and top jambs, which 3 are essentially identical. There is no bottom jamb, it's a sill designed to shed water. We don't make windows the traditional way anymore, but frequently we add an external sill element to mimic the traditional look, called an "applied sill." In that event, the exterior side casings come down to the added sill, and the trim below is like an interior apron - a separate piece. In actuality, there is no such thing as a window without a sill.

Tom, here's a typical window for woodframe construction: Frame is typically 5" or so deep. This is similar to, but different from, the centuries-old "traditional" window:

Tom, note that in all your examples the window frame is not the full thickness of the wall, which would be typical in all wood-frame construction. Try the same experiment with that parameter, and see what you get. If better than what I'm seeing, then 2025 is better than 2024. If you set the sill "Keep" parameter to be a dimension equal to the wall thickness, this picture improves.

Anyone know what this orange border in perspective view is, and how to get rid of it? I've never seen it before. It jumps around during walkthroughs. Sometimes the top of the rectangle is at eye level, sometimes the border surrounds the entire window. Nothing is selected, and "crop perspective view" is turned off. Weird orange border.pdf

This is a truly annoying and time consuming problem. BTW, I believe the object your arrows are pointing to in the original post is not the wall, but the lower “frame” of the window over which the sill is imposed. You can check this by taking a 2d section (a legacy tool you can add to your workspace). Don’t ask me why 2d sections are “legacy,” something to do with the supposed superiority of “live sections,” which I gave up on as unworkable some time back.

I’m wondering. When you switched saved views, presumably within Enscape, did it involve changing the visibility of wall classes?

This is part of a longstanding issue. The window sill was designed to work with windows in a masonry building, where the stone sill is a part of the wall. Sills for windows in framed buildings has been broken from day 1. The sill is added to a window on top of the lower frame, when it should modify the lower frame. Trim below the sill acts like the sill isn’t even there. Instead of fixing these forever problems, Nemetshek gives us new features that we never asked for and don’t really do much. Sigh.

I have v4.2.1 and working with VW 2024, not seeing this particular problem. It could be a bug with Enscape, it also could have something to do with classes if your walls have components assigned to classes. Most likely, though, I would suspect the z extents of wall components not being properly interpreted by Enscape. If you look at your wall component settings, you will probably see some are set to layer height, some to wall height, and I think there is another option. Try playing with those.

This has been discussed in the past, and a request made to get 3d dimensioning to into sheet layer viewports, with proper leader lines and text orientation. This is theoretically possible as the 3d coordinates of snap points could be acquired by the tool.

In 3-D, my round window has an opaque shape making it impossible to see through in 3-D model. I think this is the first round window I’ve ever done in all these years, but I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced this? When I explode the PIO by ungrouping, there is an extra disc. There is a extra disc the diameter of the sash, and I’m wondering if one of the sashes is improperly created so that it is a disc instead of a “torus“

Just discovered that Rendermall plants are no longer. That is a shame. The Laubwerks plants are really inferior - lack of scaling, inferior detail, and just unworkably slow. Has anyone discovered a source for plants that I didn't purchase but now need? Now VW just crashes inserting a Laubwerks tree.😣

I can't comment on the particular problem this user is having, and I do recognize that VW uses different selection conventions from other CAD software. However, having used this program almost daily for almost 30 years, I can assure you that the selection procedures are consistent and effective. I urge the user to experiment, read the online manual, and figure out how to apply VW procedures.

The simpler question first, an extrude will look like a wireframe if the object does not have a solid fill (first item on the attributes palette.

Try putting the upper windows in a class, and making it invisible in the viewport. That should allow the lower windows to display as you want them to.