Window compenent transparency
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I downloaded a window component, attached it to the wall but it's not transparent. The glass seems to be, but it doesn't make a hole in the wall. Do I need to do that first? Thought that attaching the window would automatically cut a hole in the wall.
Thanksgf
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Hi Greg,
It all depends on how the window component was made - to cut a hole or not and even in this case, the gluing plane set correctly or not.
Where is that component?
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It's the 24x24 slider window from the 3D warehouse windows collection. I have it set to glue to any and cut opening. I can see through the window as I move it around. It sticks to the wall but it doesn't cut a hole.
Acutaly it shouldn't really stick on the surface but be in the wall itself it seems. I think the problem is not the window but my lack of understanding.
gf
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Could you paste a link to the model itself?
Do you know, how many window collections there are (and how many thousand of windows uploaded)? -
Okay I figured out what's up. It's to do with how I made the walls.
My first floor will be 8" logs, so I made a shape, extruded, made and inset 8" then deleted the center section. So my wall are 8" thick. But the window will only cut an opening if the plane has no thickness.
I am approaching this wrong somehow.
If I make a wall with no thickness then attaching the window cuts a hole. But even then the window sits on the surface rather then getting embedded in the wall.
But here is the window I'm using as an example.
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Not your fault. The window is badly made. I've attached a fixed version. All hole cutting components should lie on their back when opened...with ground level defining the cutting plane. I've inset this one a nominal 1". If you want it any deeper just open the file, leave the top edges where they are on the ground plane...and drag the rest of the window lower beneath the surface. As it stands, this will import , cut a hole and be inset 1" into the wall.
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Alan
I modified your model. Now the frame pokes all the way through the wall, but still doesn't cut a hole all the way through. See attached GIF. This is the view from inside.
From the outside I can see through the glass and am actualy looking at the outer surface of the inside wall. So it's cutting a hole but only through the outer wall surface not the inner, even though the frame penetrates all the way through.
gf
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See, Greg, this is why the actual example is needed.
As for components cutting through thick walls - it is not possible at the moment. They can have only one axis system thus one gluing and cutting plane.
There are workarounds however - you can intersect the inner face of the thick wall with the component or use some truicks. I have "compiled" the experiences and "tips&tricks" of "generations" of SU users in a little tutorial here. One will find out these techniques by him-/herself sooner or later anyway so it is just like re-inventing the wheel but a forum is just to learn from each other.
Here is an example file I uploaded into the warehouse (read the description on how to enable double cutting "effect" - as it is not reall cutting double bey on its solo self). Another example without making a parent component - just placed two components mirrored on the two, opposite faces.
Finally another "trick" in a video here - wonder if you figure out how I made it
[flash=425,344:1l2eqnhi]http://www.youtube.com/v/ITO-oaowwrU&hl=en_US&fs=1&[/flash:1l2eqnhi]
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