Door

[stallionent]

 to create a model of a front/garage door:
 
1. several straight lines.
2. polyline
3. window
4. custom model

Advantages or Disadvantages of Each?

[Gilrock]

Just use PolyLine...

[stallionent]

Thanks, polyline it is

[AussieDoug]

I use single lines on all the doors & windows. That way they can be split individually & can have a horizontal & vertical layer.

[Gilrock]

I use single lines on all the doors & windows. That way they can be split individually & can have a horizontal & vertical layer.

I don't think there is anything I can't do with a PolyLine model.  Each line segment can be sequenced individually or you can sequence it as its drawn in layout using Per Preview render style or you can use the Line Segments render style to get a buffer with all the segments stacked like a horizontal matrix.  The only thing it might not have is a vertical matrix layout but if that's really needed its a 10 minute change to the code to add that render buffer style.  Working with single lines creates a ton of models and that's what PolyLine was created to improve.  Also you can curve a PolyLine segment.

[Ebuechner]

I have to ask a question why wouldn't you use the window frame model, isn't that the reason why you can input a different pixel count for the top and bottom? (Lights bottom 0)
I'm just curious

[Gilrock]

I have to ask a question why wouldn't you use the window frame model, isn't that the reason why you can input a different pixel count for the top and bottom? (Lights bottom 0)
I'm just curious

For a single door it would probably work.  I think Window has some issues as well like no way to make it go CCW and I'm not sure you can get a matrix style buffer with it like the Line Segments buffer I created for PolyLine but I'd have to test it to be sure.  In my case I had 2 garage doors so I did them both with a single PolyLine because you can do the 0 length segment in between them.