Mostly because my kit-home design project has evolved to non-stick-built construction using steel moment frames to reduce parts count to meet the goal of a 3 week on-site construction timeline (following concrete stem-wall timeline completion).Īfter 3 years of “prefab modular” design effort (which is just stick-built really), I was never able get close to a construction timeline under one month to reduce costs. So far I have drawn the window openings first then added windows as a component into the empty opening, so I don’t use FlexTools wall cutout feature. My original post wasn’t very clear … sorry for the confusion regarding window flanges (usually metal and called “nail flanges” I think, perpendicular to side frame of window, not the window trim …etc. If having new separate tags is helpful for other SU users that’s a good thing. I will likely move those FlexTools tags into my own “Windows-Doors” tag as a personal preference. Thanks for your info about tags being added by other window and door components. Can I move all these unwanted tags to the UNTAGGED layer ? Not even Sketchup Lab’s Live Window Component objects add unwanted tags when I import them into my model. No other extension I use in SU-2021-pro creates it’s own tags/layers. QUESTION: Why the heck is FlexTools adding tags/layers to my model and how do I safely get rid of them ? This is a pain. Many users comment that they find FlexTools quite useful, so I want to use it. Since my subscription auto-renewed in May-2023 I am trying to use FlexTools once again and decide whether to keep my subscription next year. Didn’t use it much because my main project at the time involved a significant amount of geometry rotated off the global axis. Purchased FlexTools a couple years ago, but initially had trouble applying windows and doors to surfaces that were not on one of the three global axis… probably my inexperience. (Update- with so many sundry sub-components inside a FlexTools window it was involved to add my own window flanges) Could add some flange geometry to the window component myself I guess, but if it is a buried option in Flex Window components already that would be a time saver. Searched with Google looking for “Flextools window flanges” …etc, but no relevant hits yet. Have not found a flange option in the dynamic component options list yet. Wondering if anyone has experience creating Flex Windows with window frame flanges as default.

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