How to model window sill

[sifuentes]

How would you model a sill like this? The image shows a detail component overlayed on the section. Do you build sills like this into your window families? Do you create some kind of family to do this?

Thanks,

[sifuentes]

Here's the image

[aggockel50321]

I've been wrestling with this myself an only recently have found a reasonable way to accomplish it. I used to make the opening cut of a standard window big enough to accomodate sills, headers, etc. The problem is, openings cut the entire wall front to back, & I'd end up trying to infill the interior side, but could never get rid of the seams. If I'd try to do voids, I'd get an error message stating that voids & openings can't exist in the same family.

What seems to work best is nested headers and sills. Open a window based template. It''ll have the length, width, & sill height reference planes & parameters all set up. Model the headers & sills where required. Cut out the pieces of wall necessary using voids & the cut geometry tool. Leave the portion of wall where the window resides. It'll be cut by the window's opening, once nested.

When finished, open the window family, & nest in the new header / sill family(s).

Or if you choose, you can set the windows in the project, & then set & align the header / sill family(s).

Attached are some pics showing a cut of an opening using a nested reveal family. The opening family first, the reveal family second, then the opening family with the reveal nested in.

[sifuentes]

sounds pretty neat. thanks andrweg.

[mtogni]

sounds good...
andrewg, can you post your family to have a look?

Thanks in adavance.

[Gerhard]

Here a family with inner and outer sill. Family was created in R5 and not everything is parametic.
The window is from a 100 year old house, which we renovate in diffrent phases
The original design is German and the house was built by local craftsman (to bad that there are not anymore such craftsman at hand).
Anyway, the window is made of diffrent voids, sweeps and extrusions.
Gerhard

[aggockel50321]

can you post your family to have a look

Here's another. Original is at work, & I'm not...

Note that nested cut just cuts the window's edge. I havn't added any solid trim. You can do that in either family, or nest in another.

Gotta go, I smell turkey cooking...

[John K.]

Thanks to Andrew G. & Gerhardt for those window openings. Much better answers to some really ridiculous work-arounds that I've used. Sounds like Andrew and I have struggled with alot of the same issues with punched-openings in masonry walls -- he just stuck with it long enough to find a good solution ...