Parametric Half-Arched Windows

Parametric Half-Arched Windows

samuelzergling
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Parametric Half-Arched Windows

samuelzergling
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I have searched far and wide and can not find parametric arched windows. I am asking to see if anyone here may have one with an adjustable left and right shoulder. I am doing a model of an existing home, see attached photo, and the home has existing arched windows that I can't find a good model for anywhere. I don't have too much time in the project budget to make the family myself, so I have been reduced to making two separate families for each window. 

 

If anyone has anything better, please post. 

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barthbradley
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You can build them parametric using these formulas: 

 

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lucdoucet_msdl
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@samuelzergling 

 

Whether these windows are to remain existing or be demolished, you are better off modelling them as an inplace generic model and setting them to an window family.

 

Just overlay a perspective corrected version of your photo and scale it to the right dimensions and sketch over it in an elevation view.

 

Less time to model with a KISS approach than to search the internet for a match.

 

-luc