Unique component

The skylights look exactly the same as the other windows and this is not what I want.
Now I can create a new component, and use this as a skylight, but I can also use a unique pre-made component .
When I have a unique component I can make this change, and keep all the other items of this component unchanged.
To create a unique component, you first have to select the multiple items of component that you want to apply this change to, as in this case the three skylights, select these three components.
Right click and choose “Make unique” in the drop-down menu.

This brings us to the edit mode of the component.
The first thing you can do is perhaps remove all the details in this window 1 – 2 – 3.
Then we fill the area again and we give a transparent touch.
This gives us a flat window (4).

 

Now I can make a dome of this skylight.
For this I must first fill the entire window.
You must know how to do this by now, anyway, but for those of us who have forgotten, select the two end points in the rectangle with the Line tool.

Then I select the “Offset” tool and draw a copy of the edges of the plane.

Then I select the “Move” tool, keep the Alt key on my keyboard pressed and move the cursor up.
This gives me a little diamond-shaped 3D shape.

Then I remove the inner lines. I click the Ctrl key on my keyboard while I click the lines with the eraser.

This gives a perfect dome.

Finally I change the material of the dome to transparent, I click “window” in the menu bar and choose “Materials” in the drop-down menu.
Choose the material, slightly transparent and click the dome and let the sunshine in.

By creating a unique component you can create a new component, and this is also shown in the “In Model” of the component library.
I already explained how to place it in one of the other folders in a previous lesson.

 

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