Window Question

[freshrooms]

I don't know how to add the windows in the peak of this house.  (see attached) Can anyone help me out?

 

Amie

Whipple Front & Rear 7-1-14.pdf

[Gawdzira]

The image attachment feature has a second button you must hit to upload the photo. Designed to annoy. Best guess, go to your attic level and place the window.

[freshrooms]

Where do I find a window that shape?

[KilgoreTrout]

You can make it yourself.  The side windows are easy, just use the "match roof" button.  For the center window, you can play with the settings (sides and top inside corners) on the shape tab to get something close. 

[freshrooms]

I can't figure out how to make the top point.  I can adjust the sides, or make a polygon that follows the roof line, but the center window is a problem.

[KilgoreTrout]

See picture.  You need to lower the right and left sides and then move the top inside corners into the center.  It looks like they still have to be about 1" apart though which makes a slight flat spot on the top.  I don't know if someone else knows how to make it a point.

[freshrooms]

YOU are a genius!  I messed around with the numbers and made a point at the top when the offset of the inside corners equalled the width of the window.  Thanks!  Now if only I could get the roof lines right on this thing...

[CJSpud]

Here's the quick way to do a "tudor arched" window:

 

[freshrooms]

Thanks!  It wouldn't have occured to me that anything named arch would end up with a point.

[CJSpud]

You're welcome.  Check out the other arch types as well.  You might want to do some experimenting with window shapes when you have time and practice changing some of the settings.  There might be an article in the Help Database on this subject.  If not, you should read up on them in the manual.  Good luck.

[CJSpud]

The tudor arch settings are easy for a 12:12 sloped roof.  For other slopes, you either have to do some math to get the height right or you could place a CAD line in a section parallel to the roof plane(s) and then "jiggle" the setting with minor adjustments until the window slope matches the roof plane(s).  Maybe someone else has an easier approach to getting the window slope quickly.

 

Edit:  Here's a snapshot of the same example with a 10:12 roof and with a CAD line I placed at 10:12 and moved next to the window slope so I could tell when I had made the height correct for the window top edges to match the roof.

 

 

To get the CAD line to display as a roof pitche type angle, select the Number Style to open the dialog and make that setting change.  In my example, the lines have a negative 10:12 pitch.

 

 

[Kbird1]

I'd never thought of using an Arch till recently either then saw a tip on using the Dogear Arch  ( no google doesn't know what it is either   )

  which can work for this or for Diamond shaped Windows by checking the "reflect vertically" box (sills and lintels must be off for Diamond windows though.)

 

 

  

[kMoquin]

I find it helps to draw some construction lines to help me get the measurements for the dialog box entries.