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[Dennis Hilborn]

Rather than just placing them side by side?  That works but there is an overlap where the sills meet.  I'm not using opening schedules yet so I don't know what happens there.

[Yvon Gonthier]

You can edit the openings and uncheck the Exclude From Unit Openings box under the Header tab so that it become a single opening or edit one window, select Add Product Code and give it a name. Then go back in the System Library>Openings, find tthe new window and edit. You can then select Add to ad other panels to create a multiple panel window. You can also create your new windows directly from the System Library. 

[Keith Almond]

There are various ways (Softplan typically has more than one way to do anything) ... The best way depends on what you are trying to achieve. Personally I'd always design anything as one window. What do you want to see?

[Dennis Hilborn]

This is what got me to thinking that there might be a better way.  I'd like to eliminate the two lines that are circled.  I can just erase them on the elevation but they show up on the floor plan and can't be erased there.

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[Keith Almond]

For me, the easiest way to decide how to draw it, is to try an determine how will it actually be built. In this instance I would expect that that particular window will actually be built as one window, so why don't you draw it as one window. Just stretch the window (either manually or dimensionally in the edit box) to the overall size and divide it into 2 sections.

 

OR to do it the really easy way ... why not draw it as the correct size two section window to start with?

 

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If you do it the way you did, then go to EDIT > UNIT OPENINGS, click on one of your openings, it will allow you to save the combined opening as a single unit by giving it a product code (i.e. saving it as a single window), which will combine all the relevant trims. Just butting them up together really causes issues if you want to add either interior or exterior trim.