Windowizer Help

Nikstar9

Hi,

I’m hoping someone can let me know what I’m doing wrong. I’m using Windowizer 4 which I only installed in the last week so should be up to date.

My problem is that my windows always end up outside of my walls, not in my walls. I can move the window group back so that it is in the wall but I am left with 4 faces poking out on the wall which I then have to delete. I have attached a screen shot from straight after I hit apply on windowizer. Windowizer sample.jpg

I have tried pre-cutting the window hole as well as not and it doesn’t seem to make a difference. I have also tried selecting different sides of the face and this also doesn’t seem to make a difference.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Nikki

TIG

You have modeled your walls inside out.

Use a Style with a distinctive back-material color for faces ['blue' is usual, with 'off-white' for fronts].
Change your View to Monochrome mode.
If you see a 'blue' wall, then that's the back not the front!
Such faces are readily reversed - select+right-click>'Reverse...'
Connected faces can be matched to a selected face using the similar 'Orient'.
Shortcuts to these two tools makes live a lot easier.
There are also several scripts to 'reverse faces'...

It's important to model with the faces correctly oriented - hence the different colors and tools to view and reverse them. Otherwise, as you've discovered, it can cause issues with some tools that need to decide which 'side' of a face they will add details to etc. It's also critical with many 3rd party renderers, these usually 'ignore' back-face materials, and can therefore give surprising results - some will use an off-white, some a black and some a transparent material, for such visible back-faces [there are tools to flip faces and materials over if too, but again it's best to get it right initially rather than the convolutions of fixing a messy model later]...

Nikstar9

Thanks, as soon as I reversed the faces it worked perfectly.

It must be something I do but every face in my model needs reversing. I will use the monochrome style next model that I start from scratch and see if I can work out why. i usually draw a floor plan first then pull all my wall up. It must be something in that initial 2D plan.

Thanks again.
Nikki

brookefox

Perhaps there is a plugin for reversing faces that are 'wrong' facing, granting that there may be some disagreement about exactly what that means, but I guess the parameters could be set so that it worked well enough. Matter of fact, TIG has probably written it.

TIG

@brookefox said:

Perhaps there is a plugin for reversing faces that are 'wrong' facing, granting that there may be some disagreement about exactly what that means, but I guess the parameters could be set so that it worked well enough. Matter of fact, TIG has probably written it.
Me AND many others... Search the Plugins Index...

mitcorb

In regards to generating back faces where you wouldn't ordinarily expect them, it is probably because you may be overtracing or constructing some of these from scratch. I noticed that when I do corrective input, it is sometimes the sequence of line work or the direction of linework in a circuit to close that will determine the face direction. I believe this is a known feature, and there is probably a "rule" chiseled in stone about it somewhere in the guts (gizzard) of the program.

Nikstar9

Thanks for all the help. It is much appreciated.