Creating Custom Front Windows: A Step-by-Step Guide

Let's begin to work on our main front windows here and here. I will zoom in on this window and I will draw a rectangle from this endpoint to this endpoint. Click your Rectangle tool here, here.

Now, let's create the frame first this time. We'll use our Offset tool and we'll offset four, enter. Select the tool, select our center face, and delete.

Then, push-pull this face here out one inch, enter. Then, we will triple-click this group, all these faces, right-click, and make a group. Then, go to our Move tool, click Control to copy this point to right here.

We'll go to my Select tool and then, holding down Control, select this trim piece and this trim piece. I will hide these for now so they are not in the way when I model my window. Right-click, hide.

Now, let's create the window. So again, let's do the same thing we did before: draw a rectangle through the inside.

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So, find the teal midpoint and draw a line. Then, let's make this face thick. Go to our Push-Pull and click.

You see that if we start pushing and pulling, it's going to move this face inside. We want to click Control to create a new starting face. We'll hit Control, then we'll hover over the facing group, and then we'll double-click this to copy that same move.

Now we have a thick mass. Now, we'll go to our Offset tool and offset this to enter and do this side to enter. Then, we'll do one enter for the window trim, one enter.

Then, I will push-pull this face until I see the face to delete and double-click to delete that as well. Then, I will push-pull this inner frame piece 1.5, enter, and then double-click to copy that same move.

Then, orbiting around the inside, we see that we don't have the same sort of detail.

We want to do the same thing over here. But because we already deleted this face, if we do offset, it'll do the same offset.

So, let's do Offset one and make sure that it's the right size.

Oh, that's the wrong size. We'll go to Control + Z, we'll Offset two, and now we can push-pull this 1.5 as well.

Let's do the same thing here.

Offset two, and then push-pull 1.5. Now, we see we have our inner frame.

I'm going to triple-click the frame of my glass and make that a group. Right-click, make a group.

Now, we want to create our glass itself. We want to do it on an eight-panel glass pane. So, in this case, let's draw a rectangle from right here to right here.

This is where our glass is going to go, and we want to create eight panes.

There are multiple ways that we can do this.

I'll show one way: You can draw a line here, and then we can select this top line. Hold down Control, top line, and then we can go to our Move tool.

Hold down Control to duplicate this. Duplicate it all the way to the bottom, and then let's divide that by four. Enter.

So, that's one way to create four equal sections.

If I go to the other side, we can also do it this way: select this top line, right-click, select Divide, and scrub right and left until the points are getting more and more.

You can see down in the bottom-right corner, it says segments: Segment 21, Segment 2. We want Segment 2.

We can do the same thing with this line to the left. Click it, right-click, select Divide, and scrub up until we see number four.

Now that we have these points, we can either draw a line across, draw a line across, or we can draw rectangles from here to here.

Both of these ways are fine. They both create the same result. Obviously, this took a lot faster than this.

As you start modeling, you'll begin discovering techniques that work best for you. I'll delete this and model one for now, then duplicate it.

Now, I want to create little window frame pieces.

So, I'll go to my Offset tool, and for each one of these squares, I want to offset 0.5.

I can click, type 0.5, and do the same thing. Click 0.5, or again, I can double-click to copy the same command for each one.

Then, using my Erase tool, I can delete these additional lines.

Now, I want to recess these glass panes inside.

So, what I can do: double-click this, not triple-click; if you triple-click, it'll select everything. We want to double-click just the frame pieces, then right-click and make a group.

Then, we can select each of the actual panes, holding down Control to select each one, right-click, and make a group.

Then, we want to paint these the same color we used before. We were in Glass, and we had the Translucent Glass Gray.

I'm going to go to In Model, scroll up to In Model, click Translucent Glass Gray, and paint that.

Now, we want to add some thickness to this trim piece.

Double-click, and then we'll want to push-pull this element in.

Let's do it half an inch. So, one-half, enter. Then, we'll select out and move our glass panes to the middle, which is one-quarter inch.

Now, while we have that selected, we'll click our Select tool, then, holding down Control, copy and select this face.

Then, we'll right-click and make a group.

Similarly, we will move this into the middle here.

Then, let's make a copy of this glass. We'll hover over this corner, select Control to make a copy, and copy it over.

Now, I'll go to Edit, Unhide Last to bring back our window trims, and go to our Selection. Then, drag a selection window over all of our components and groups, right-click, and make a component.

Now, here we have our created component dialog window where we want to name it.

We'll name it Window Dash 6056.

This is because our window is six feet across and five foot six inches vertically.

Let's put our description as Window 6056.

We'll set Glue to None.

Again, we'll set our component axes.

This time, rather than being on the outside of the trim, we want it to be right where the window meets the wall.

So, that would be right in this area, though it might be hard to see where that wall is.

We'll go into View Face Style X-ray.

We can see a little better where that wall is, and the wall we can see is right here.

We'll change this to the same direction.

We want to go red first, then green this way, and it'll automatically have our blue be vertical.

Then, we'll create.

Now, we can see in our components that we have a Window 6056.

I'll zoom out and pan over.

I'll turn off my X-ray view.

Now, I'll place this window over here. Click on my Window component.

Boom! There we got it.

So, that's one way to modify these windows.

Now, these are components. If you edit one, it will edit both.

Let's do a Zoom Extents.

Let's save our file.

Then, in the next video, we will begin to build our main doors for the clubhouse. I'll see you in the next video.