BIM/Arch development news articles from Yorik's blog

Wow !

Excited to learn the new development direction; interested in understand more about IFC types :smiley:


As with existing Window Tool, a few earlier quick thoughts:-

  1. Window with Several Sketches as Base
  2. Sketch base is fine and simple. Just when sometime when closed loop edges overlap at some part, Sketch fail to return proper Wire.
  3. If Base accept a list of Sketches instead of only one, each may create a particular window component, there will be more flexibility
    With similar concept, using another Sketch with Part Extrude can create a custom opening shape as discussed in Question about custom doors: chamfer, screencapure as shown below.

  1. Placement of Window
    There were several concepts I experimented earlier in my add-on, e.g. (screencapture below)
  2. User-defined Alternative Window Origin
    1. Currently, the ‘origin’ of the Sketch roughly ‘define’ the origin, or ‘insertion point’ in AutoCAD’s concept
    2. Just add another placement attribute and user can e.g. use the mid-point of the bottom edge as its ‘origin’ / ‘insertion point’
      (more discussion in Intuitive Automatic Windows/Doors + Equipment Placement
  3. Pre-defined Alignment / Offset from edge e.g.
  4. Wall Left / Wall Right ( as Left or Right in Align of Wall object)
    2. Midpoint, Start, End etc.

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