[New Plugin] Windows Builder

jenujacob

This is awesome! Thank you sir!

juju

Looks great Didier, thanks!

Any plans to incorporate vertical sliding units and side hung units? Side hung units are much the same as the French you've shown, except that it would have a vertical frame (smaller than the outer frame most of the time) in-between the casements.

Some comment, see attached. Sliders usually have the same (or roughly the same) size frame all around.

Any chance there will be a toggle to show / hide the open indicators (as used for Construction Documents, can be easily switched off for presentation purposes) on plan / elevation?

It would also be great if we could save presets.

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I'm probably asking too much, but have been spoiled by Medeek with the following features:

ability to preset custom layers to glazing and frame,
ability to preset custom materials / textures for the frame and glazing.

pilou

New but copious!

dtrarch

Didier

You really started it all with your copious and special plugins to make Sketchup so complete.
Thank you so very much for all of your efforts.
Respect and super to see you still with new ideas and help to us all.

dtrarch

rv1974

So feature rich tool, thank you so much!
Is it possible to add in the future:

some pin button to keep settings window open
right frame texturizing. The texture of material will be alighed in accordance the longest edge of the element (horizontal\vertical). Obviously, it'd demand to split window frame to horizontal\vertical parts.
Thank you once again

srx

Thank you for this wonderful present.
Making holes in grouped geometry...Can it be done?

Didier Bur

Thanks for all your feedback

@srx: if you mean creating a hole for a window in a wall made of grouped geometry, yes you can. Just select the window and click the right-most icon of the toolbar.

@juju: nice ideas, i'll work on these asap

pbacot

I'm surprised I missed this. Looks great! Thank you for sharing!

utiler

Wow that's quite a plugin!!!

kenancakir

Thank you, for this usefull plugin..

eallard

Hi, I'm trying to see the other images but they aren't available...

Dave R

Which other images? I don't see that there are any missing ones.

juju

@didier bur said:

Thanks for all your feedback

@juju: nice ideas, i'll work on these asap

Didier, have you been able to spend some time with this yet?

Didier Bur

Hi Juju,
I wish I had the time to enhance Windows Builder (and LOD Labels plugin too), but I'm busy on SU/Twinmotion projects for a couple of months now. I'll be back on Ruby coding asap

juju

@didier bur said:

Hi Juju,
... enhance Windows Builder (and LOD Labels plugin too) ... I'll be back on Ruby coding asap

You just brought tears to my eyes, thanks for your valued support of the SU Extensions and community!

ajmwd

This looks like a great extension! I am running SU Pro 2017. When I try to install this extension from the Extension Warehouse it says "This extension is marked as being not compatible with your Operating System or SketchUp Version. Proceed anyway?".

Is this extension incompatible with SU Pro 2017? Extension Warehouse shows "Compatibility: SketchUp 2016."

Any clarification from anybody using this extension would appreciate. Thanks!

Dave R

You could try it an see what happens. Very often the compatibility list is slow to be updated if it is at all.

Didier Bur

Hi,
Windows Builder is compatible with SU2017 (Make and Pro).
Regards,

Glenn at home

I'm probably doing something wrong but I can't get it to cut the opening. Do walls have to be grouped? I've tried both ways.
TIA

Didier Bur

Hi Glenn

It works in both cases.
First example shows that "Cuts opening" and "punch window" both work on a regular face of a wall, and second example shows that only "punch window" works if the wall is a group.
But it will work OK if the context is the group (if you are within the group when launching WB)

Regards,

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