BimInsert

Platinum Platinum Platinum

Inserts a window or door in a solid.

Make sure Dynamic UCS (DUCS) and Dynamic Dimensions (DYN) are active.

Accessing the Command

command bar:  biminsert

menu bar:  BIM| BIM Insert

toolbar:  BIM |

: biminisert

Displays a File dialog box:

Select a window or door to insert, then double click or click the Open button.

Pick or enter insertion point: (Move the cursor over a solid; the face highlights. The UCS aligns dynamically with the selected face; the X-axis of the DUCS is parallel to the edge by which the cursor enters the face.)

Do one of the following:

• Specify a point to insert the selected block.

• From the middle of each edge of the opening dynamic dimensions display to the nearest parallel edge on the face of the solid.
  Press the TAB key to cycle the fields.
  Type a value in the dynamic dimension fields, then press the TAB key, to lock the field which then turns red.
  Only one of two parallel dimensions can be locked. If a dimension value is entered, and the other, parallel dimension was already locked, it will be unlocked..
  Press Enter or click to insert the selected block.
  
  
  1. Locked field
  2. Current field
  3 and 4. Unlocked fields

Command Options

No Options

Procedures

Inserting windows or doors

Related Commands

BimWindowUpdate - updates the opening made by a window or door in a solid, in case the definition changed in such way that the opening was not correctly updated automatically.