When no trim is installed (wall to the right) the band board is cut at the opening(s) flush with the sheathing and cladding. When trim is installed the band board and skirt terminate at the edge of the window/door trim.
Little details really, but the devil is in the details.
Reminds me of the days working construction for a general contractor in Utah some 20 years ago. I was installing faux log siding on a high end residence and if our pieces butted up with a gap anymore than 1/32" he would make us pull it off and redo it (especially on the front of the house).
I should point out that within the door install menu (and door edit menu) the user can pick between seven different styles of door hardware. Currently only Style1, Style2 and Style3 are active which means that the component (.skp) file exists in the components sub-folder.
If you want to add more hardware components, just name them (Style4, Style5, Style6 or Style7) and place them in the “components” sub-folder.
At some point I will probably move the door hardware into the “library” sub-folder and provide a better system for selecting and adding additional hardware within the global settings. The current system is limited and rather primitive.
Note that Style2 is a lever handle while Style1 is a typical doorknob. Style3 is a doorknob/deadbolt combo.
Just for curiosity sake I gave crown molding some more thought this morning and it quickly became apparent to me that interior trim is far more complicated than I originally thought.
The problem arises when you have a long ext. or int. wall that is adjacent to multiple rooms, where multiple walls tee into this wall. Some of these rooms may have crown molding and some may not.
To make this completely parametric would require some very serious logic.
Another option would be to decouple the crown molding from the wall panels and just make a separate tool for this function.
Option C would be just to leave this venue to other plugins like Profile Builder. The problem with this option is that with baseboard and chair rail the door and window openings would have to be manually removed.
For now I don’t have an optimal solution for interior trim, I will need to give this some more thought.
Foundation Plugin: Not parametric, slab on grade foundation, less than a minute
Wall Plugin: Fully parametric, exterior walls only with some doors and windows, about a minute
Truss Plugin: Rafter roof not parametric and required manual editing to complete this roof framing, approximately 30-45 minutes of trimming members with the trim tool (Truss Plugin).
Based on this test the area I am falling down in most is the roof. I need to be able to automatically create complex roofs and also have them fully parametric, this has always been the holy grail of the Truss Plugin and I have not yet achieved it.
In my mind the Wall Plugin has already surpassed the Truss Plugin in ability and functionality.
Currently it will draw a header but I can setup something to eliminate the header entirely. However, if we eliminate the header then I suppose we don’t need the trimmers either.
A Grid3x2 would be three columns and two rows (6 lite).
There are now 10 variants available for window grilles. One of these days I might consider adding in the Diamond and Queen Anne patterns but right now I’m “grille fatigued”. On to bigger and better things.
I will need to add in another set of parameters for shutters and associated menus.
The parameters will be:
Shutter Geometry: Single or Double
Shutter Style: Louver, Raised Panel, Flat Panel, Board & Batten
Shutter Material
Shutter Thickness
By default they will be half the width of the window opening and their height will be the same as the window opening. The shutter(s) will be offset 2" from the edge of the window to simulate the space taken up by hinges. I will not be showing hinges or any other hardware so as to keep the poly count reasonable.
The poly count on the various styles should not be too much of a problem except for the louvered style. Not sure how to model this variant without adding a lot geometry which is going to make the model heavy.
I have not yet enabled shutters for arched windows, that will be next.
I also need to add in a board & batten shutter which is also quite popular.
Also note that you can position the shutters on either side of the window (left or right, single shutter) or the more common double shutter configuration as shown.
These arched shutters are proving to be a bit more challenging. I will need to figure out a new algorithm for board and batten shutters and louver shutters.
To create the raised panel effect I will draw the three outlines and then use the transform_entities method to move the edges into the plane. The problem is when I try this with a curved outline(s) as shown SketchUp does not know how to handle the curved planes/surfaces being created.