Window (& door) improvements

[Markus Barrera-Kolb]

These improvements would greatly enhance the usefulness of VW's parametric window (and door) objects in our workflow:

• allow the shim gap to be hidden in 3D view (but optionally displayed in 2D)
• allow for a drywall (or whatever your wall finish is) wrap with a variable offset from the outside of the jamb (frame) for sides (jambs) and tops (heads) at the interior
  
• allow for separate control of interior and exterior sills
• allow for exterior jamb liners (not all windows & doors are set at the exterior surface of the wall!)
  
• allow for offset from the interior face of the jamb (frame) for the exterior trim – the current alignment makes no sense and has no basis in reality (I've never seen trim covering the entirety of the window frame!)
  
• pie in the sky: allow for the exterior wall finish to be lapped over part of the frame at the jambs & head (we often over-insulate part of the frame in our super-insulated envelopes and then extend the cladding, as in the attached details)
  

As it stands, we end up having to model our trim from scratch, sometimes our exterior wall finish from scratch, and doing a bunch of cleanup and manual 2D work to make our interior elevations reflect reality – that's not particularly effective BIM(ing).

Cheers,

Markus

[Markvl]

+1

[willofmaine]

+1

Additionally:

-Exclude the frame from the bottom of a window when there's a sill (otherwise it seems to sit on top of the sill)

-Set the depth of exterior sills with respect to the outside face of the wall (rather than the inside face, which makes it necessary to reset a sill's depth for different wall thicknesses)

-Make the Elevation Reference correspond with the Size Reference (so that when a window's Size Reference is "Sash Opening," for example, its Elevation Reference also uses the sash opening, rather than referring to the top of the frame) VWIS025

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- Include some reduced rubber seals + handles option (for Visualization)

Also for Curtain Walls

- Make leafs and frames by profile options, along path

- Make geometry DXF exportable

- Make window settings hierarchical to allow simple editing of the main settings

and hide special settings in an advanced mode

[Tom Klaber]

+1...

OR - allow for variable custom doors. I want so many things from the door tool that I am now seeing that would be too complicated to have a door tool that gives me everything I need.

While the capabilities of the tool should be increased it would be great to have a way to make a custom door that is still parametrically edible,

As we move from Sd to DD to CDs - the door tool becomes more and more ill-equipped to show the design. If we could build our own doors in a way where they can still enlarge and change styles - that would be ideal.

Maybe even an outside 'asset creation' program that builds these smart objects.

[whashisface]

+ 1 for all of the above.

Also the ability to turn off windows/doors in walls through the class menu and see a solid wall rather than a gap.

[PVA - Admin]

Sorry for the delay, wanted to get these all in as separate items and the paperwork takes a bit. They have been submitted.

[AllenWalker]

Improvement of the doors and windows styles is one of the most efficient ways for enhancing the looks of the house. The floor-to-ceiling frames provide maximum ventilation and sunlight into rooms.  In addition to it you should also think about room dividers which you could see here, may help you to divide your master room for increasing your privacy level as well as for other uses also.

 

Edited January 3, 2017 by AllenWalker