Skylights

Skylights

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Skylights

jimkedmondson
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Hello,

 

I'm attempting to create a schedulable skylight.  I figured out how to detach / unanchor a window from a wall and 3D rotate it.  I think I should be able to set it fairly accurately on my sloped roof.  However, I did find that the window was still displaying "top down" in my roof plan view and not as a sloped representation.

 

So... I headed to the display manager and turned on "Model" view for Windows in the Display Representation Set.  This seems to have the desired effect.

 

Am I on the right path (of my dark and scary ACA journey) or do people have a better skylight method?

 

Appreciate any help!

 

Jim

 

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John.W.Mumaw
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For a roof plan view that's probably ok.  If you need it to show up in a floor plan (as a dashed rectangle for instance) you might have better luck by creating a skylight style for your window and editing the plan display of that window.

 

John

John W. Mumaw
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David_W_Koch
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To add to John's advice, if you do this a lot, and would prefer not to have to do a lot of object-level overrides or, if you need to have both "vertical" Windows and "skylight" Windows use the Model Display Representation for non-orthographic views, you may want to duplicate the Model Display Representation for Windows and give it a name like Model Skylight (any name will do; pick something that will be meaningful to you and describe your intended use).  Then you can leave the Model Display Representation as is, while adding the Model Skylight Display Representation to your plan view Display Representation Set(s).  You can then set style-level overrides on your "vertical" Window styles for the Model Skylight Display Representation and turn off all of the components (since you just want to see the plan Display Representation for these Windows) and on your "skylight" Window styles, you can set a style-level override on whatever plan and sill Display Representations you use and turn off all of those components, so that the skylight Window styles only show the Model Skylight Display Representation components in the plan Display Representation Set.  That will also let you customize the Model Skylight display as desired, without messing with the Model Display Representation.


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Jake_PCH
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10 years on from this post, what is the agreed best practice for skylights in ACA?

 

*UPDATE*: I have created a new post  - ACA Skylight Best Practice - Autodesk Community

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