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  • P Offline
    Peter Covnik
    last edited by 20 Aug 2009, 13:10

    Hi, in this video you can see that window opening is moving with window. Do you know how set up wall or window like this?

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      Peter Covnik
      last edited by 20 Aug 2009, 13:11

      this is link video
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJKAmDl2Bqc&feature=related

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        Gaieus
        last edited by 20 Aug 2009, 13:43

        Hi Peter,

        Those are "Dynamic components" - a new thing in SU 7. We even have a whole subforum for them here (under the SU Discussions).

        You can only edit (create/modify...) them with the Pro version of SU 7 but you can also use them with the Free version. Search for "dynamic components" in the Warehouse but make sure to enable them under Window > Preferences > Extensions and activate the DC toolbar from View > Toolbars.

        Gai...

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          TIG Moderator
          last edited by 20 Aug 2009, 18:10

          @peter covnik said:

          Hi, in this video you can see that window opening is moving with window. Do you know how set up wall or window like this?

          I think the question is how does the window opening move with the window ?
          A component can be given glue/hole-cutting properties - so a door or window component will cut a hole in the face it's placed onto. As the window moves it moves the hole to match. ๐Ÿ˜„
          Now the bad news... A cutting component can only glue to one face and I guess you are thinking, "...walls are usually two skins..." ? So the other face to the wall doesn't get cut ๐Ÿ˜• ๐Ÿ˜ข
          Now the good news... Some of us have been working on various solutions (me. Didier and Thomthom et al). I have an unpublished 'punch' method that links a front 'hole' making component [say a window] to a matching back-face plain 'hole'. The back 'hole' also has a reveal-lining that scales to suit the wall's width. The pair of components have a guid attribute that links them together and various observers tell if one is selected and selects the other etc so they move, change and erase etc as if they were one thing... The back 'hole' is also linked to the two faces with guid attributes and scales itself to suit a wider wall etc...

          TIG

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            Peter Covnik
            last edited by 21 Aug 2009, 13:05

            thx your s advices were very helpful for me.
            Yours variou solution is working now? if yes can i found some publicated example online? If yes, where thx.

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              Peter Covnik
              last edited by 21 Aug 2009, 13:47

              In this video
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LFnxT98-WM&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsketchup.google.com%2Fproduct%2Fgsup.html&feature=player_embedded#t=188
              you can see that wall is two sided /0.45min/
              and window is cutting both sides /1.24 min/after placement in to the wall.
              propably there is a secret tool or skill how to do it

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                Gaieus
                last edited by 21 Aug 2009, 14:00

                No, there the "hole" is already cut for the installed component. This video shows a +trick" only, too:
                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITO-oaowwrU
                where the back face is painted with a transparent colour (so it's not cut through just see through and from inside, it wouldn't even work).

                Read this long winding tutorial about components and how they cannot (but can be "tricked" to) cut double walls:
                http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=744

                Also, here is a "working example" of what TIG mentioned above (and what you can see in the tutorial above): when two cutting components are placed opposite to each other onto the two opposite faces of a thick wall:
                http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=a7960f12cf33423c9c6e1dd67923b5cd

                Now this is what these genius plugin scripters are working on; to automate the process somehow so we don't have to manually add these things all the time.

                And sorry for misunderstanding your first post - I thought you were asking about those "flexible" things.

                Gai...

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