Windows for
model houses

How to use it§ 01

1. Open the Library (Advanced mode) and go to Buildings.
2. Pick Window. A preview stands on the plate while you set it up.
3. Choose the Type first: Fixed, Single hung, Sliding or Casement. The form then shows only what that type needs.
4. Set Width and Height (the outside of the frame), then the frame, the depth and the muntins.
5. Add an architrave and shutters if you want them. Each is a part of its own.
6. Tick Lay flat to print when it is ready, then Insert.
7. Change it later with Edit settings on the plate. The window is made again and stays where it was.

Four types§ 02

Choose the Type first. A single hung window asks for its sashes, a casement window for its casements, a fixed window for its shape.

Fixed

A frame with glass that does not open. Panes across and up, glazing bars, a sill. This is the window as it was before the other types: windows made earlier open as Fixed.

Shown at 14 × 16 mm, two by two panes

Fixed, with a shape

Only Fixed has the Shape choice: arched top, half round, round, or a bow (half an octagon). The other types are square.

Shown arched, 10 × 20 mm, two by three panes

Single hung

Two sashes, one above the other. They overlap by one rail in the middle and stand at different depths, so the meeting rail shows. The upper sash is in front, as on a box sash window. A switch puts the lower one in front.

Shown at 14 × 22 mm, three by three lights in each sash

Sliding

The same idea, with the sashes side by side and the meeting stile in the middle. The left sash is behind by default. A switch puts it in front.

Shown at 22 × 14 mm, two by two lights in each sash

Casement

One to four casements side by side. Each is a sash set back in the frame. With two or more, a mullion stands between one casement and the next.

Shown at 14 × 18 mm, two casements, one by three lights

Three casements

A wide window made of three casements. The mullions are the bars of the frame between them. The width of each casement is worked out for you.

Shown at 24 × 16 mm, one by two lights each

Muntins, or grilles§ 03

Muntins are the thin bars that divide a sash into small panes of glass. The panes are called lights. Some people call the bars grilles. A “six over six” window has two sashes with six lights each.

On the three new types you set Lights across, Lights up and Muntin width, and the same lights go into every sash. On a Fixed window the same thing is called Panes and Glazing bars.

Architrave§ 04

The architrave is the trim on the wall around the window. Choose a style, then its width and how far it stands out from the wall. It is a part of its own, so you can print it in another color.

Plain

A band of trim down each side and across the head.

With lintel

The sides, and a heavier bar over the head. The lintel is wider than the sides and stands out further.

Pedimented

A band across the head with a triangle on top, like a small gable.

False shutters§ 05

False shutters are fixed to the wall beside the window. They do not move. Choose Pair, Left only or Right only. Each shutter is a part of its own.

Width is each shutter’s width. 0 means half the window’s width, as they would be if they closed. If the window has trim, the shutters stand outside it.

Louvered

Slats that slope down toward you, as on a real louvered shutter. Set how many slats.

Paneled

A frame with panels sunk into it, one above the other. Set how many panels, 1 to 4.

Planked

Vertical boards with a groove between each, and two battens across them. Set how many boards.

Printing it§ 06

We assume you print the window with its facade side up. Tick Lay flat to print and the window lies on its back, facade up. The glass is the first layers on the plate, in clear filament. Every bar stands up from the plate to its own level, so nothing prints over air. The two sashes are stepped, not floating.

The trim and the shutters lie beside the window, each on its back. Glue them to the wall around the window once they are printed.

The numbers§ 07

Good to know§ 08

• Set a model scale such as 1:87 and the panel reads out the real size. A window 14 × 16 mm at 1:87 is 1218 × 1392 mm.
• The window’s pivot is the middle of its bottom edge, at the back. When you change its numbers, it stays standing on its sill, centered, flush with the wall.
• Set it into an opening of the same size, then Merge. The glass is a part of its own, so a window is an assembly: select one part and the others come with it.
• Trim and shutters are offered for square windows. Arched, half round, round and bow windows have no square outline for them to follow.
• If the sashes would be too shallow for the glass, or the lights too small to print, the panel says so and shows what to change.
• For a door to match, see Doors. For brick or stone around the window, see Cladding.