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#1 Doug Stephenson

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Posted 22 February 2017 - 09:53 AM

Good morning, (or evening).

 

I have been working on a room addition which is not complicated at all. Everything was good until a glass sunroom was added.

Never created one and searched forum with no luck. As always I said 'sure'. Should know better.

Any input would be helpful.

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#2 randolph cohn

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Posted 22 February 2017 - 10:23 AM

need to know exactly the type of sunroom your clients are looking for.

 

from a simple hip, gable or shed design

 

https://townandcountryus.com/details/

 

 

to

a more complicated design > check out site below.

 

note: sunrooms go by many names.

 

https://townandcountryus.com/

 

https://townandcount.../products/pool/

 

look up sunrooms, conservatories, garden rooms, etc

and post a similar design of what your after.

 

you can go from rock to bach with design / and costs.


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#3 Keith Almond

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Posted 22 February 2017 - 10:49 AM

The way I normally deal with sunrooms, is draw them as a standard wall, and add windows. Then stretch the windows floor to ceiling and wall to wall, and divide into the required number of sections.

 

TIP: If you make a WINDOW LIBRARY called SCREENS or something similar, and save windows into that, you can easily change the glazing to screening if required without affecting any other openings.


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#4 Mark Petri

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Posted 22 February 2017 - 11:11 AM

I sometimes draw the frame as a model (symbol) and then use a glass only wall definition and different roof material (without framing or sheathing showing) to show the roof. Usually the glass on a sunroom roof sits below framing (or framing is capped over the top of the glazing). So, it looks more realistic if I create a frame independent from the glass for walls and roofs.


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Posted 22 February 2017 - 04:04 PM

Same idea as Keith suggests, ..


.. invariably, someone will have a simpler solution.


#6 Doug Stephenson

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Posted 24 February 2017 - 08:10 AM

I apologize for not responding back sooner.

Randy, thank you for your quick response. I was going to attach the sample that I was provided, but couldn't quite pull picture from email. The links are helpful and the many types of sunrooms give plenty of options. I will send you a sample a bit later.

Keith, I will use your suggestion first to provide her something quickly. How do you add glass panel roof. They want to view in 3D?



#7 Keith Almond

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Posted 24 February 2017 - 08:17 AM

I've never added a glass panel roof, but two options come to mind.

 

1. In roof mode, add a skylight and adjust size to suit

2. Add a roofing material that's not used elsewhere, make it a solid colour and adjust the opacity to where it looks like glass. This may take a bit of tweaking depending on the other visible materials.

 

Depends on what look you want to achieve, but I think the skylight option may be the easiest, and quickest.


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#8 Keith Almond

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Posted 24 February 2017 - 08:28 AM

You can also use some of the sketchup sunroom models to add a custom sunroom (you can tweak all the dimensions in Softplan to suit your customers final size). Again depends on what they want.

 

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This was the original sketchup model

 

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Inserted into Softplan, that I used to represent a Customers existing Sunroom on an proposed remodel.

 

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