Placing and repositioning exterior windows

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All parameters control the behavior of the family

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and can also be extracted into a schedule

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over in our browser. In our project browser, we already have a window schedule.

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So if we double click on that,

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we'll see that the schedule has already

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extracted some information that's been preset.

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Once again, we'll tile our views.

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So if you go to the view tab up on the ribbon and click on view,

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come across to the windows panel and select tile views. Again,

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we click in one of the

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views other than the schedule

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and typing Z A that shortcut again

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to zoom all the views to fit.

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We'll now see that if I choose any of the windows within the schedule,

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they actually highlight within the other three views.

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So we can see in the elevation of view, that window is highlighted

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within the 3d view, that window is highlighted.

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And likewise within the level one floor plan,

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we can see it's highlighted there.

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So if I click one of the others, you'll see that again

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is applied,

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we will now click in level one floor plan twice,

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once to activate

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twice to deselect the window that was selected

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and we'll go up to the view tab again

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within the windows panel and choose tab views

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to revert back to a single view.

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We will right click and choose zoom to fit

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to centralize the building within the view.

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The windows tool can be found within the architectural tab build panel.

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And when we select the window tool,

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a contextual ribbon tab appears called modifier place,

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window and the properties pallet type selector provides

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us access to any window families and their types

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that have been previously loaded.

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We're going to select the 36 inch by 48 inch window

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and we're going to place that along the wall at the top. Here,

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we'll notice that as windows are hosted families,

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they will only appear

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once they discover their host or once they detect their host.

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So

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as we can see, we'll just panned down a little bit.

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So we can see those temporary dimensions,

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we can move our cursor

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along the wall and determine where we're going to place it.

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And when we are happy with its location,

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we simply left mouse click that will place itself

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within the wall and cut its own opening.

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We could continue insert these manually along this wall.

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But because I know we want to put these in evenly distributed,

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instead, we'll use the

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a

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in fact the linear

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oral.

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So we'll now go up to the ribbon and click, modify

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to cancel what we're doing.

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And we'll select the window that we want to array.

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And then within the modify windows, contextual ribbon tab,

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modify pan

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will choose array

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and it's via the options bar that we're going to

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tell this command what we want it to do.

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So we're already set to linear array.

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We're going to turn off group and associate

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and here tell it how many windows we want along that wall.

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So we want five including the one that we've inserted.

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And we'll also tell the,

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that we're going to specify the distance between the first and the second.

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So we do that by selecting the middle of the first window

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and then moving our cursor until we see five ft.

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And then when we left mouse click,

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that will now carry out that array. And there we have our five windows evenly spaced

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at five ft.

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We'll now insert two additional windows and zoom into them

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using temporary dimensions to maneuver them.

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So we go back up to the architecture tab and click on window

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and the same window that we inserted earlier will now come across and

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click in this position this location and click on the wall there.

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And then we'll click a little bit further over and click on the wall there

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and choose, modify to exit the tool. So up on the ribbon, we click, modify,

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we'll position our cursor in the middle of those two windows

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using the wheel mouse, we'll roll in to zoom in. So we can see clearly what we're doing

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and we'll just hold it down to pan a little,

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we'll select one of the windows and so that we can see the temporary dimensions

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and we'll select the temporary dimension and change that to a value

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of our choice.

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And we can see straight away that we're actually manipulating that window

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to a location of our choice. So if I do the same with the other window

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and use temporary dimension again,

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once again, type in three for three ft,

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we can see how we can use the temporary dimensions

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to maneuver our windows accurately.

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So we'll click, modify to exit that maneuver.

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We'll now right click and choose zoom to fit to centralize our model

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and up on the view tab.

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So we'll click on the view tab, we'll instruct rivet to close all inactive windows.

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So if we click on there,

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we can see that the only view we now have open

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is level one.

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We're going to finish this exercise by copying all of the windows on level one,

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up to level two,

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we're going to select all the windows by using the selection filter again,

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copy it to the clipboard,

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followed by copy and paste aligned to selected levels to level two.

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So we'll start that by selecting everything.

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So we click and drag and select everything that we see within the model.

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Once again up on the ribbon, we'll choose within the selection panel, filter

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deselect everything we don't want so we'll deselect everything, it's quicker

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and then we'll choose windows

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and then when we pick, OK,

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we'll see that the only thing that we have highlighted are the windows.

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We'll now go up to the ribbon again.

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And within the clipboard panel, choose copy to clipboard,

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the icon that appears next to it. We, the paste icon that is will choose the fly out

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and choose aligned to selected levels.

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And within the select levels di box, we'll select level two

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and click. OK.

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And to prove that we've been successful,

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we'll now double click on the default 3d view.

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And we will also open up one of our elevations. We'll open up west, let's say,

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and again, we'll tile our views. We can't see those very well. So I go view

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tile views

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and use that shortcut Z A

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to zoom all have used to fit.

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So we can now see that that copy and paste maneuver of all our windows from level one

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to level two

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has been successful.

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So to finish what we're doing, we'll choose modified deselect

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and that is the end of our task.