Welcome to the doors and windows video for the Chief Architect Bachelor View
project. In this video I'll place some of the windows,
shape them to follow the roof, stack them one over the other,
and then use posts and beams to frame them in. For the doors,
I'll place a folding patio stacker door and then create asymmetric windows for
the garage doors.
Let's begin with the windows for the rear main living room wall.
I have the Bachelor View Project open. In the previous video,
we were working on the ceiling. For this segment,
let's change our plan view to the floor plan and then I'm going to use the full
overview camera and the segment that I want to work on first is this back main
wall for the living space.
Let's begin with our window tool and click and place our first window off to the
side over here. Let's double click and open up the window and a few changes.
First of all, on the height I'm going to set it to 92.
I'm going to make sure the floor to bottom is at zero. For the casing,
let's make sure that there is no interior or exterior casing.
On the sash,
I'm going to go ahead and set that at a quarter inch for all of the settings.
A lot of times I'll just copy that value, paste it in,
a little bit of a time saving shortcut. On the frame, on the very bottom,
I'm going to set that at three inches and then the remaining values,
we'll set it at a half-inch. Once I have those settings in place,
I'm going to use the multiple copy tool.
I'm going to set the interval at 51 and a quarter.
I'm going to slide a copy of that down the wall and then go ahead and shift
select all four windows, use the center tool,
and find the center of the room. Now in the next segment,
I want to go ahead and put some posts and beams between the windows and above
the windows and just below the roof.
That's going to be the easiest in our floor plan view.
To clean up this view a little bit,
let's go ahead and switch to the working view.
I'm going to go ahead and zoom in on the area where the windows are and let's
begin by using our post tool. Before we place our initial posts,
let's go in and set some defaults. I'm going to double click on the tool.
I am going to set my default post to be nine and a quarter by nine and a
quarter. The rest of the components, my fill style,
we'll go ahead and leave that and then I'm going to zoom in a little bit closer
and I'm going to place this first post.
Lets double click and check the height information.
I'm going to set the bottom of it to be at the subfloor height.
We'll go ahead and lock the bottom and I'm going to set the total height at 113.
Next, I'm going to go up and I'm going to grab a ceiling beam. Come in here.
Go ahead and drag this frame to frame. Let's go ahead and open this up.
You can see my default width is also nine and a quarter for this beam.
Let me lock the depth and then I'm going to set the floor to the bottom at 92,
which
is exactly the same height as our windows. Next,
I want to go ahead and place a roof beam across the entire back wall.
So we'll come up here, grab our roof beam,
and I'm just going to click and drag all the way across.
I want to make sure that this is centered on the wall.
Let's use the center tool. Come up here, center it on the wall.
I'm going to zoom in.
I'm actually going to pull that out to the edge of the siding on both sides and
now let's go ahead and use our elevation camera and use our multiple copy tool,
zoom in. On the bottom,
we're going to have a deck and that will be right at the floor level.
Let's grab the posts. Let's grab the beam. Let's use a multiple copy tool.
I've set that interval at 51 and a quarter.
I also need to do the same setting for the posts and beams.
With that value loaded, let's go ahead and pull a copy of that over.
For this last post, let's go ahead and use the same multiple copy.
Slide one more copy over to the end.
Now typically what I will do is turn on my crosshairs so that I can use this
alignment.
I'm going to pull these posts up and I'm just using my crosshairs to get the
right side of the crosshair on that roof beam.
May be a little bit difficult to see in the video,
but that helps using that crosshair for the alignment purposes.
Now for this window over here, let's go ahead and create a copy of it.
Let's slide it up so the bottom of it is at the bottom of the beam and then
inside of the window dialog, let's go ahead and make a few settings.
Let's just temporarily change the height to be 22 and then the floor to bottom
should be at the top of that beam and that is 101 and an eighth.
Over on the frame panel,
let's go ahead and set the default bottom width to half-inch,
and then on the shape panel there's an option here to match roof.
That's going to come in at the same 3 in 12 pitch as the roof and then let's go
ahead and zoom in and make the setting. I'm going to use the same approach,
the right side of the crosshair.
I'm just going to align that with the top of the beam. Once I have that set,
let's go ahead and use our multiple copy.
The same interval 51 and a quarter is set up in here and then each one of these
windows will just kind of pull up until we get the right-hand side of the
crosshair at the top of that roof beam. Again,
we'll just slide that up and then the last window over here,
we'll also pull that up right into the top of the beam. Okay,
that looks pretty good and if we zoom out,
I'm just going to fade in the same approach over onto the master bedroom here.
I've spent a little bit of time creating the windows and the post and beam for
the windows.
I want to take the windows in the main living area and I want to copy those and
paste them around symmetrically onto the front of the house right in this area.
Let's go over into the floor plan view and I want to make a copy of all of these
components and copy them over to the other side.
Now the first thing that I want do is I want to use the copy reflect tool.
I don't have a good center point to copy those windows around.
Here's what I'm going to do.
Let's temporarily go over to our floor plan view that has the dimensions on.
I'm going to use the line tool and I'm just going to draw a line through the
middle of the house. I'm going to take the dimension, use the extra diamond,
pull it over to that line, click on the line, come over here,
set it to be 26 feet. I know that line is exactly centered now.
Let's switch back to the working floor plan view. Next,
let's go ahead and open up our active layer display set and go ahead and zoom in
a little bit. I want to make sure when I create a copy of these items,
I don't want to copy the wall.
I'm going to click very near the edge of the wall.
You'll notice in the active layer display set,
you can see what is selected and now I'm going to hold my shift key down left
click and drag a marquee around the posts, the other beams, and the windows.
Notice in this selection I don't have any wall selected.
Let's go ahead and zoom out so I can see the line.
I can also see the area over here.
This wall is going to cause a problem when we copy the windows,
but that's okay because I'm going to actually delete the two windows in the
middle. Those objects are still selected.
Let's use the copy tool. Let's use the reflect tool.
I'm going to be very slow about this because I want to make sure that I get the
line that we drew at the center point of the structure. Go ahead and click.
That will create a copy of those objects. We take our elevation view,
shoot an elevation through here and you can see because that wall is on the
other side, it did cause a problem with those windows.
That's okay because I'm going to hold my shift key down and I'm going to delete
those four windows because of that intersection of the wall.
Let me go ahead and close my active layer display set.
I'm going to toggle back on my crosshairs.
I'm going to make a few changes to these four windows.
Let's go ahead and shift select all of them. Double-click to open them up.
Over on the casing,
let's go ahead and use interior casing for the sash and the frame.
Let's go ahead and set bottom width back to half-inch and then for the two
bottom windows, I want to make a couple of changes in the height.
On the general panel,
let's go ahead and set the height of these windows to be 48.
Notice that that changes the floor to bottom to 44.
Zoom in just a little bit.
I'm going to take each one of these posts and I'm going to use my crosshairs and
I'm just going to align those to the bottom of that window.
A little bit of busy work here.
With those changes in place,
I'm going to hold my shift key down and I'm going to grab each one of the posts
and each one of the beams am going to make a setting change for each one of
these. As I double click to open them up,
I want to go ahead and set the width of these to be seven and a quarter for the
width. While they're still selected,
I want to pull those away from the interior of the wall.
I'm going to use the transform replicate. In the Y direction,
I'm going to go ahead and put in five eights value.
Pull those away from the wall and then when you go into the floor plan and you
take a wall elevation or just a section view through the wall,
you can't see them on the inside of this wall.
Now back on the exterior elevation.
I'm going to make a copy of the beam between the two windows using the copy
tool. I'm going to pull that below the bottom of the window,
let it snap to the top of the wall cap, pull it over,
use my crosshairs to align it, and then do the same thing on the other side.
Now the resulting space in between the windows, right in this area,
I'm going to use a wall material region.
You'll find that up underneath your build menu under wall material region.
I'm going to come over here and I'm going to click and drag a wall material
region not being too exact for the video. We'll grab this diamond,
we'll pull it up so that it's about parallel with the roof.
Go ahead and zoom out just a little bit.
I'm going to use the material eyedropper,
pick up the scene metal siding and apply it and then open up the library and
look for frosted glass and then apply that to the lower portion of the windows
and that way you have privacy through both the bedroom in this area and the
bathroom in this area. Remember on the other side of this wall,
if we were to toggle this on to be glass house,
we actually have a wall that's intersecting right in that area and therefore I
don't have any windows in that space and you can see in our 3D view what this
looks like.
I'll go ahead and paint the upper window frosted and now you see the front of
the windows and then you also see the back of the windows.
Let me go ahead and clean up some of our views here.
These posts and beams would be an integral part of the framing.
Let's take a look by building the framing for the floor,
the walls, and the roof.
Then I'll specifically change the layer set to the 3D framing.
More than likely,
you will need to make manual edits to the framing if you want it to be exact,
such as removing the additional studs near the windows.
Also, I could have removed the header from these windows.
As I open up the completed plan with all of the framing,
you can see how the framing continues down through the lower level.
Now for a couple of the doors,
let's begin with the garage door and create an asymmetrical window for the door.
Let's begin with a garage door in the smaller of the two bays,
underneath the door tool let's come down, grab our default door,
go ahead and place it.
You'll notice that it already has asymmetric windows inside of the door.
Let's open it up, make a change from the default to a glass panel,
and then I can come down under the uniform,
uncheck that and make a change on the right side.
Press the tab key and you can see over here in the preview the way that the
panel is going to look. On the options portion of the dialog
I'm going to mark that all of those panels are glass and then when we're
finished, I'll go ahead and use the material eyedropper.
We'll pick up the material off of the beam and apply it onto the garage door.
I'm going to make a copy of this garage door slide over here.
Go ahead and place one in the larger bay.
Let's go ahead and open this up and make a few changes in here.
Let's set the width of it to be 18 feet and then you'll see the panels are very
large for the glass. Let's go ahead.
We could come in here and say plus 108 press the tab key and make the same
change. However, they look a little bit small to me,
so I'm going to go ahead and make a slight adjustment in here.
We'll try 144 press the tab key.
That looks pretty good and that's the process for creating asymmetrical windows
for your doors.
Let's rotate around a little bit and let's look at this area right in here.
I want to place a folding stacker door may be similar to what NanaWall offers.
I'm going to use the sliding door tool and place the initial default door style
and as you can see my default stacker is pretty similar to what I really want.
Let's go in and make a few modifications to it. On the general panel,
you can see that my percent open matches in the dialog and also in the 3D view
so you can control that.
On the options panel is where you can control the door panels itself.
Right now I have it set to be custom and then you can control the left and the
right and then a few other options. If you want to control the 3D display,
if you wanted to show it open or closed and I've just made the change to make
that four panels.
One other way that you can control the open and closed portion of those doors,
you'll find a tool in your lower edit menu where you can toggle this to be open
or to be closed right down in the lower edit menu.
That concludes this segment of the doors and windows video for the Bachelor View
Project. In the next segment of the video, I'll be working with stairs,
the stairwell, and creating head room for the detail of the stairs.