Plaster Bands around Openings

[AidanHawkins]

I am trying to model something like this around wall openings..

Should I just model around the opening with a 25mm plaster wall and join it to my existing wall?

[siddharth.achaya]

It depends how many of these you have to make.

If it's just one or two, yeah, I'd go with making a separate plaster wall type around with an edit profile.

If it's a hundred (lol), then maybe make a quick face-based family?

You could add parameters for LxB of the opening, offset distance from the opening, width of the band and thickness of the band...

[Simon_Weel]

If the openings contain a Door or Window, you could add the plaster bands in those families. For openings without door or window, you can still use a Door or Window family to create the opening and add the plaster band as well.

[syman2000]

Why not build a opening family with the built in band? See attached

[ToanDN]

Do you want it to join to the wall?  Or it can just be like a door trim, but made of plaster?

[AidanHawkins]

yes I thought of that but can I then place a window in the same place as the opening?

the plaster bands are existing

[AidanHawkins]

just like a door trim, made of plaster, it doesnt have to be part of the wall

They are existing, so I think It is best to keep them seperate to the windows which I will be changing in the new construction

[syman2000]

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@AidanHawkins wrote:

yes I thought of that but can I then place a window in the same place as the opening?

the plaster bands are existing

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Yes you can.

[ToanDN]

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@AidanHawkins wrote:

just like a door trim, made of plaster, it doesnt have to be part of the wall

They are existing, so I think It is best to keep them seperate to the windows which I will be changing in the new construction

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Model as a door family without opening cut, just the plaster band.

[siddharth.achaya]

posting from the correct id (also notified mod to remove the other ones) - 

@ToanDN pretty much summed up what I had suggested - make a face-based family.

I would think even if you want to give it a door identity (since there is a general aversion to leaving something generic category), I feel it might be better to model it using a generic face-based template, and then give it whatever category you want  - door/window/other...

If you model it symmetric around the Centre ref-planes in the template, you can use those to align it with the windows that you have placed... (might have to do it in an elevation though)