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[Louise Statton]

Hi!  I'm creating a custom window library, and I'm having some trouble with the sills.  I've created the window and sill options in SketchUp.  The windows import into SoftPlan perfectly, I add the architraves once in SoftPlan.  Sills are another story.  I can get them to look good in 3D by making them waaaay to deep for the wall - but they don't protrude in section.  I created the sills as an opening because I want to be able to stick the window and sill together with the ""Unit Openings"" tool, to make the windows easy to use by my colleagues.  I generated the attached photo to illustrate what I'm trying to achieve.  In this instance the sill is a Symbol (which can't be stuck to the window with the Unit Openings tool, right?)

 

I've been unable to find a way to edit the sills provided by Softplan.  I've also been unable to get the sill to extend beyond the architraves, despite fiddling with the settings in Opening Options within System Options.

 

Any help or suggestions gratefully accepted, I've been tearing my hair out over this for too long now.  Thanks,

Lou

 

 

 

[Keith Almond]

You should be able to adjust pretty much anything you need in the sill from FILE > DRAWING OPTIONS > DRAWING OPTIONS > MATERIAL DIMENSIONS > OPENING OPTIONS - If you want the sill to project past the architrave, increase the sill overhang accordingly.

 

 

[Keith Almond]

If you edit the system options, that only affects future drawings. Try editing drawing options instead.

 

Look at it this way. The system options are a set of drawing defaults, that affect how every drawing is set up when it is opened. Once a drawing is opened, the system option no longer apply and you must use drawing options to edit anything within the drawing. If you edit something at drawing level, and it looks good, then you can edit the system options to configure the defaults for the next new drawing that you create.

[Keith Almond]

I'm not too sure what the issue is, as ALL my windows default to NO sills.

 

However, As far as I'm aware, if the window has a "sill" it will only show by default in a wall that has a masonry finish.

 

There is a SILL, and there is EXTERIOR TRIM BELOW, which one shows up may depend on the wall finish that is specified.

 

Have a look in FILE > DRAWING OPTIONS > DRAWING LIBRARY > OPENINGS and select a window and EDIT SYMBOL. Then CLICK - EDIT ENTIRE OPENING and go to the EXTERIOR TRIM tab. If the either of the trim boxes are checked, it should ALWAYS show with the defined trim, otherwise it won't automatically show with any.

 

The TEXTURE that shows when you open a 3D drawing is defined in the \SoftPlan\3D\Material Files\Default/3d.spm file.

 

The 3D will always open with the default textures. Once you have a set of textures that you like, you can always save them as \SoftPlan\3D\Material Files\texture.spm (where texture is your chosen file name), you can make as many as you want and load them whenever you like.

 

If you want to REPLACE the DEFAULT textures with your own, you will have to OVERWRITE the DEFAULT\3D.SPM file. I would suggest that you save the original somewhere you can find it again if you want to restore it.