VELUX SKYLIGHTS FOR VW

[Matt Panzer]

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This page is also on their USA website:

https://www.veluxusa.com/professional/products/modular-skylights/cad-bim

Clicking on the "Get the Vectorworks Objects" button downloads the plug-in.

 

It seems like some of their distributors are unaware it exists?

 

Thanks for trying.

[bc]

Isn't the problem that the plug-in is currently obsolete, either with regard to VW 2019-2020 or to the fact that it is not current with Velux models?

 

[Matt Panzer]

1 hour ago, bc said:

Isn't the problem that the plug-in is currently obsolete, either with regard to VW 2019-2020 or to the fact that it is not current with Velux models?

 

I would say the plug-in is not compatible with 2019 and later.  However, I don’t know if new Velux models have been introduced that the plug-in cannot produce.

[rohantheboat]

Bimobjects.com have the range but only revit and archicad, I’ve messaged the manufacturer from this website to see if Vectorworks files can be added. It might be another way to nudge them.

 

https://www.bimobject.com/en-au/velux/product/top-hung-roof-window-bottom-operated-gpu-gpl

 

 

 

 

[line-weight]

Realistically (in my opinion).... we are never going to get VW-specific parametric BIM objects for anything other than perhaps a tiny proportion of products. The user base is simply too small. Even if the Velux ones were updated... the reality is, that if you are specifying rooflights you want to be able to choose from manufacturers.

 

Ended up making some Fakro rooflights in 3d a while ago, by importing some other format, and doing a lot of manual fixing and messing around to get something that actually was any good to use in a working drawing.

 

I think we should entirely give up on any idea that companies are going to make stuff specifically for VW. Instead, we need:

 

1) Better automated import/conversion of 'standard' filetypes - Revit, IFC, whatever

and/or

2) A decent, reliable, customisable window tool that can get 'near enough' to a manufacturer specific system. With a rooflight option

 

I'd rather spend 2 hours tweaking the settings of a good window tool to create something that near-enough emulates a manufacturer's details, that is then parametric (I can use it to make various instances of that system with differing sizes and configurations), than spend half a day bodging together a 3d model from scratch, which is non-parametric and requires further manual modelling work to create each instance, or each time the design is revised and the window size is changed by 50mm.

 

It's truly infuriating that we still don't have functional window and door tools, while VW marketing materials try and pretend the software is 'BIM ready'.

[line-weight]

Imagine my excitement when I read this mention of velux rooflights this morning:

 

 

Well, it's true that there are now some velux rooflights in there, but they are just the "flat roof" types and not the widely used pitched roof types. They aren't parametric in any way - separate 3d symbol for each product/version.

 

It's better than nothing.

 

Would be great to have the full range of pitched roof ones including all of the flashing and internal reveal elements that go with them. Even if I had to manually rotate and insert them into holes cut in roof faces. If they were parametric in some extent, meaning that I could do stuff like set the pitch in the OIP, or easily flip between different sizes without replacing the object, all the better. It would save an enormous amount of design time.