Opening parts
An opening is made of five parts: Leaves, Glazing, Frame, Sills and Shading. They are at the bottom of an opening’s inspector (Doors and windows) and of a type (Opening types), the same fields in both. This page lists every choice each part offers.
Where a part comes from: what the opening sets itself first (the part then says changed, with back to the type beside it), else its type’s, else what its kind usually has. With no type, a window has wooden frames in dark wood, double glazing, a wooden inner sill sticking out 3 cm, a marble outer sill and a roller shutter; a French window the same without the inner sill; a door neither sills nor shading.
The plan draws how each leaf opens (see below); the other parts are kept with the house and its file, for the review and for whoever reads the house.
Leaves
Section titled “Leaves”
The kitchen’s window on the example home (opening-8, a Tilt-and-turn window) has two: a Side-hung leaf hinged on the Left and a Tilt and turn one hinged on the Right, both opening In.
Leaves chooses how many, from 0 to 4. Leaves are numbered in their order across the opening (Leaf 1, Leaf 2…). A leaf added is side-hung, hinged on the left in the left half of the opening and on the right in the right half, opening the way the first leaf does; fewer leaves keep the first ones. The leaves share the opening’s width equally.
Each leaf has:
- Opening: how it opens.
- Hinges (seen from inside): Left or Right, the jamb it turns on.
- Opens: In or Out.
How a leaf opens, and how the plan draws it:
| Opening | what it is | on the plan |
|---|---|---|
| Side-hung | turns on its hinges, like a door | the leaf and its swing |
| Tilt and turn | turns on its hinges, or tilts its top inwards | the leaf and its swing |
| Fixed | doesn’t open | the glass only |
| Sliding | slides beside the next leaf | a pane set off the others |
| Lift and slide | lifts, then slides: large French windows | a pane set off the others |
| Sash | slides up and down | the glass only |
| Bottom-hung | hinged at its bottom edge, tilts its top inwards: high windows | the glass only |
| Pivot | turns on an axis in its middle | the leaf and its swing |
| Folding | folds back in panels | the leaf and its swing |
The swing is drawn on the side the leaf opens to, from its hinges. A door has no glass on the plan; a doorway draws nothing. On a door or French window, the right-click menu’s Swap the hinge side and Open towards the other side turn every leaf at once.
Glazing
Section titled “Glazing”One choice for the whole opening: Double, Triple, Frosted (lets light in, not the view: a bathroom’s), Reflective or Safety.
- Material: Wood, PVC, Aluminium, Wood-aluminium or Steel.
- Colour inside and Colour outside: each its own, from the colour picker (a wood-aluminium frame is often wood inside and grey outside).
- Place in the wall: where the frame stands across the wall’s thickness: Inner face, Middle or Outer face.
- Inner sill: None, Wood, Marble, Stone or Metal. With one, Overhang is how far it sticks
out into the room: from 0 to 30 cm, 3 cm when it is added. On the kitchen’s window, type
Overhang
5for a deeper sill: the part says changed, as the window’s own. - Outer sill: None, Wood, Marble, Stone or Metal.
Shading
Section titled “Shading”
An opening can have several, one of each kind, listed from outside in. Add shading offers the kinds it doesn’t have yet; Remove takes one off.
| Kind | what it is |
|---|---|
| Roller shutter | slats rolling into a box above the window |
| Shutters | hinged shutters outside, slatted |
| Solid shutters | hinged shutters outside, solid panels without slats (the wizard’s Solid shutters) |
| Sliding shutters | shutters sliding along the outer wall (Sliding solid shutters when solid) |
| Interior shutters | wooden panels inside the window |
| Brise-soleil | outdoor slats that tilt |
| Insect screen | a net against insects |
| Venetian blind | slats inside |
| Roller blind | a fabric roll |
| Pleated blind | folded fabric |
| Roman blind | fabric that folds up in pleats |
| Curtain | a curtain |
A window or French window with no shading that looks out south-east, south, south-west or west, where the sun warms the room in summer, is in the review, with Add a roller shutter to fix it.
If something goes wrong
Section titled “If something goes wrong”Each change to a part is one step: ⌘ZCtrl+Z undoes it. On an opening of a type, back to the type gives one part back its type’s, leaving the others as they are.