@pbacot said:
JQL. In use in real projects though, components are complex window and doors models etc. I've done this sort of thing many times, trying to find faces to apply different function too. Intersect with objects that lie right on a face (not intersecting planes) is pretty poor, and complicated by the elements in components, requiring a lot of work, sometimes with finicky face division. A clean opening is wanted.
One can always work on a copy of the face. Leaving the original.
Not sure even with a plugin there'd be an answer, but believe me, it's not easy. I've done all sorts of intersecting, and it's often faster to draw, cut, and hack your way to a useable face. I spend a lot of time on Board and Batten wall designs.
Best is being able to use a good texture, or having a BIM solution that puts geometry on the face and updates itself.
Pbacot,
No doubt about any of that. Any way, for the specific question this answer might be the best around.
I work daily with hole cutting components myself, with as complex geometry as construction documents need and know this intersect with selection works. Any other method is welcome but tracing around windows is not a good method as windows might have complex geometry, that might be either coplanar or not to facade face and wich might make it impossible to trace every single window.
BIM is just too much if the need is this basic. A good texture, wich is what I use, it's not actual geometry. Avoiding hole cutting components is a workflow breaker in this particular case. Working on a copy of the face, leaving the original is after all what I've done, what I did was that I created a temporary copy and grouped it outside.
I offered a simple enough solution...
