Skylights

Skylights are analogous to Doors and Windows. They can be intelligently placed into Roofs and Shells, using the dedicated Skylight tool.

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The Skylight placed on the surface of a Roof or Shell will be automatically inserted into the parent element. When placed into a Roof, it is adjusted to the correct Roof pitch angle.

The panels of Skylight Settings are similar to those of the Window/Door, Object and Lamp tools.

See Skylight Tool Settings.

Skylight Display on Floor Plan

The Floor Plan display of Skylights placed in ARCHICAD 15 and later is based on a 3D projection, not a symbolic depiction.

Exception: Skylights migrated together with older-version projects to ARCHICAD 15 and later will be displayed, by default, using “symbolic” attributes for their Floor Plan display.

See Migrating Roofs and Skylights.

Skylights are displayed using the Floor Plan Display settings (e.g. Show on Story) of the host Roof or Shell.

Pens and line types are set for each Skylight, as for Doors/Windows, in the Floor Plan and Section panel of Skylight Settings.

Model View Options (Construction Element Options) include options for Skylights, analogous to those of Doors/Windows.

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What’s Covered

Placing and Moving a Skylight

Skylight Constraint Relative to Roof

Skylight Tool Settings