Sliding glass shower door for alcove bathtub

[GeneDavis]

I wanted to try this and at first thought Chief might have such a thing without needing to get too creative, but no.

 

I never had the need to do one before, but was surprised at how easy Chief makes it.  Thanks, folks.

 

Draw glass wall placed right atop the tub rim after setting tub, and place a slider bypass door centered in the glass wall.  Open a window alongside that is the wall elevation, and edit top and bottom of wall so it's sitting on the tub with top where needed.  I used Kohler's spec for one and my door is 54" tall.  In the plan view window, edit the door so its extents are at the walls.  Open for spec and size the head, jambs, and sills to your preferences, edit materials per your prefs (I did mine in polished chrome), and decide how you want to accessorize it with hardware.  Finding no elements in Chief libraries for the bar handles and the track rollers, I did them using p'line moldings and solids.

 

The only little thing off is that since I built up wall thickness in the tub alcove with material region wall tile with built-up thickness like it would actually be built, the side jambs appear embedded in the walls a little.  I'll doodle around and find a way to fix it.

 

[Renerabbitt]

50 minutes ago, GeneDavis said:

The only little thing off is that since I built up wall thickness in the tub alcove with material region wall tile with built-up thickness like it would actually be built, the side jambs appear embedded in the walls a little.  I'll doodle around and find a way to fix it.

this is a good one, I had been doing this for years as part of my template  I am sure I have a video on it somewhere, its nice to be able to do barn door style shower doors in this way too. You can use a door and have a threshold and can get even more clever with closed shutters etc. 
Nowadays I do it with a cabinet though

[mtldesigns]

5 hours ago, GeneDavis said:

slider bypass door centered in the glass wall

Ah, so this is an actual wall with a slider placed in it.. then you did the rest.  Interesting.  Curious why you went this way though?  I have the manufacture catalog from Kohler that has these doors.  Is there something different that I am not seeing?  

 

But honestly, I'm a cad guy, so when I model something from scratch, and it works and looks legit.. I get pretty dang excited, so cheers to a great job and thinking outside the box.

[Renerabbitt]

10 minutes ago, mtldesigns said:

seeing

Yes.. the parametrically resizable qualities of the door tool make it so that you can dynamically model any mfr or custom bath door

[mtldesigns]

@Renerabbitt

You and ChatGPT are on the same page..  :-)  Glad to see I'm not the only one on here on a Saturday night.