So, I’ve been modeling super detailed to-scale models of the 100+ year old housing stock in my neighborhood as part of a resident-driven community masterplanning effort. You can see some of the models here: North End Housing - A 3D model collection by TysonGersh - Sketchfab I’ve finally come to the…

I think the best way to approach is to have ‘Global Variables’ ie. WindowHeight and WindowWidth. These are set in the top-levelcomponent. Every nested component can acces these ‘Globals’ by having an attribute that has the same name and a formula that refers to a higher level: WindowHeight=PARENT…

Yeah, I didn’t know what terminology to use, but I think that’s what I was trying to get at. Additionally, being able to reference percentages of the globals by basically typing in long math problems was key. So happy to have worked this thing out!

Model updated to include the interior trim. Once you get the hang of it the dynamic components features are really straight forward and clear cut

Folks, let me derive this a bit: I once thought the mantra of my windows would be a DC workflow… I worked hard on that until the thing worked seamlessly. It was a very convoluted component but it worked. I now use a different method instead, based on regular components: fredo scale’s box stretch f…

Let me derive a bit more: :grinning: I have followed the path as well, developing a ‘softspot’ for the DC, and worked hard, failed twice as many and continually having to cope with problems I absolutely have the faintest idea of what is going on. I tend to use the DC’s solely for ‘metadata’ at th…

So, Even though I got the model to work, I’m running into trouble actually using it now that I’ve added the trim and sill. In adding these, the outer shell/outer parameters increased in size and as a result the scale grips moved beyond the window jamb. Now I can’t figure out how to insert the windo…

I downloaded it and it looks pretty straight forward. once I get a little spare time I will recreate it and share the model

That would be so so so so so so so so great! Just to clarify, this is to get the scale grips to line up with the Jamb (not the trim, or sash), right?

I believe when scaling the component position is fixed at the edge of the component rather than the axis origin. A way to work around that is to us global variables instead of scaling. I’m not aware of a way to scale from the component axis origin. [Scaling]

[image] Stair railing resizes incorrectly Dynamic Components Here is what one of the original designers of the DC has to say about it: Here’s the idea. Before something is a DC, it’s reported width is equal to what is on screen. However, at the moment a positioning formu…

Creating a Complex Historically Accurate Dynamic Window Assembly

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MikeWayzovski August 28, 2018, 10:05pm 30

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