Explore the detailed intricacy offered by Sierra Pacific Windows' products, a company known for its high-quality windows and doors. This article delves deep into the features of their Carmel collection, discussing the unique characteristics of different types of windows and how they can be incorporated into the construction process.
Key Insights
- Sierra Pacific Windows offers a variety of window types including casements, awnings, double hungs, and horizontal sliders, all known for their quality and functionality.
- The Carmel collection from Sierra Pacific Windows features a double hung elevation, which consists of two parts: an upper and a lower window. This design allows for optional mullions, which are integrated into the windows and can be used to enhance building elevations.
- Sierra Pacific provides detailed design drawings for their window products, allowing architects and builders to extract crucial information and integrate the exact profiles of the windows into their construction details. These drawings include comprehensive sections and callouts, providing a thorough understanding of assembly and installation.
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One of the window manufacturers that we at my office use a lot is Sierra Pacific Windows. Great company, terrific people, good product, really, really good product. They have some amazing information for the consumer and for the construction industry.
They make doors and windows, and so let's just look at windows for a second. They have casements, awnings, double hungs, and horizontal sliders. A casement window would hinge on one of the sides, and they usually open out.
An awning window hinges at the top and goes out. Double hungs have two windows, one above one another. One goes down, one goes up.
A horizontal slider slides left and right. So let's just choose the Carmel double hung. And so they have details about the operating units, pictures of the units, PDF summaries, vertical and horizontal details, and you can see that these are available in PDF and in DWG.
So what I've already done is I have downloaded for you some of these details that we will be using to add into our actual detail. So let's begin looking at that. There are five drawings that we've downloaded.
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Again, this is all for their Carmel collection. Here is one called the double hung elevations. So you can see that the window is in two parts.
There's an upper and there's a lower. There are optional mullions, and these mullions are integrated into the windows. So what you can do for your building elevations, if you choose to use Sierra Pacific windows, you can go on and extract the actual profiles of the windows and include those in your elevations.
We have a jam typical. This would be where we are having a section looking down through the window. So what's going on is that one of these is the upper window.
One is the lower window. So what's going to happen is this would be the outside on this side. So this would be the outside.
The upper window is always outbound of the lower window. They come pre-assembled, and you can see how they would be working together. And you can also see all the detail that they have going on in these drawings.
This is more detail than we're going to need to use. But you can see there's lots and lots. And you can see here that they have a callout section here for detail A. And let's zoom extents.
And here is that detail A. Here we have a section. Again, it's outside here. Here is the window at the head or the top.
Here's the window at the sill or the bottom. Here is the transition between the upper and the lower window. We're actually going to use this drawing for ours.
Here we have a section where there's a fixed glazing above an assembly that then has the window below it. And down and through here is where you would have two windows alongside one another. There would be a window here, a window here.
Outbound is here. These are the upper windows. These are the lower windows.
These windows ship as a pair. And this is the jam that is shared between the two windows. So I'm going to close this drawing because I don't need it.
We will need this drawing. I'm going to close the jam horizontal. Discard the changes.
I'm going to close the elevations. And here's yet another drawing that what we have going on here is here's a section. This is probably one of their typical.
Here is a section that's going through the window. Outside is here. Here's the head.
Here's the transition. And here is the sill. Here again is glazing on top.
Wood between. Window below. Again, horizontal section where the outside is here.
Here is the upper window. The lower window. And then this would be where you have two windows assembled together.
And this is the jam between the two. So I'm going to close that drawing too. So what we can do now is to extract the information out of their drawing and put it into ours.
So I'm going to go to model space. And I'm going to end up using copy with base point. But can you see how the shortcut is control shift C. So I'm going to go control shift C. Give it a base point of right about there and do a crossing over that.
I can now close this drawing. I'm in this drawing control V. And look at this. Look at how small all that information is.
One thing you'll notice is that there's a lot of things that we can get rid of. The dimensions I'm not going to need. I really don't need to have dimensions at all.
Because that's not the purpose of our drawings. And I'm going to save the file. One thing you'll notice sort of right away is that this is their outside on the left.
Our outside is on the right. So I'm just going to mirror window. Ortho on.
Delete the original. Yes. And save the file.
If you would please get this far then we'll continue on.
