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envelope

Glass balcony balustrade

glass-balcony-balustrade dresses asset:balcony-balustrade — and nothing else. Appearance is invisible to the drawing set, so adding this changes no plan, no section and no elevation.

Used in examplesHouse Exterior Elements

  • 6of 500 meshes
  • 3slots
  • 1finish

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The build. Made here, now, by the same interpreter a model gets.
Glass balcony balustrade, shown as a photorealistic visual reference
The reference. AI-generated, not bimtex output — the authored input this body was written against.
$frame
$glazing
$hardware

This definition leaves $frame and $glazing and $hardware open, and a look line fills them. Every combination is one body — same geometry, same selector, same sheets — so the block below rewrites itself as you pick. Only materials are slottable: a size would have to agree with the plan, so it stays on the entity.

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The body and its drawing evidence

The deterministic renders check the body's footprint, structure and depth. Geometry, material and the selected finish stay unchanged.

Top renderEL 90° · ORTHOGRAPHIC
Rendered axonometricAZ 40° · EL 32°

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Every part: the 3 materialdefs the body resolves to, then the definition. Copying the lookdef alone still compiles and still validates — it just renders grey.

{"t":"materialdef","id":"pack-envelope-cast-metal","of":"painted-metal","value":20,"accent":"#303234","body":{"metalness":0.48}}
{"t":"materialdef","id":"pack-envelope-glass","of":"glass","value":86,"body":{"type":"MeshPhysicalMaterial","transmission":0.92,"ior":1.5,"thickness":0.02,"roughness":0.06,"transparent":true,"opacity":0.28,"depthWrite":false}}
{"t":"materialdef","id":"pack-envelope-zinc","of":"steel","value":20,"accent":"#3d4347","body":{"roughness":0.38,"metalness":0.72}}
{"t":"lookdef","id":"glass-balcony-balustrade","name":"Glass balcony balustrade","for":"asset:balcony-balustrade","desc":"Three-post charcoal balustrade module with two clear glass infill panels and a continuous top rail.","slots":{"frame":"pack-envelope-zinc","glazing":"pack-envelope-glass","hardware":"pack-envelope-cast-metal"},"note":"Natural box is 2.4 × 1.1 × 0.14; the transparent panels stop short of the rails and posts so their clamps remain visible from either side.","body":{"type":"Group","children":[{"type":"bimtex:Run","count":3,"from":[-1.14,0,0],"to":[1.14,0,0],"children":[{"type":"Mesh","material":"$frame","geometry":{"type":"RoundedBoxGeometry","width":0.07,"height":1.05,"depth":0.07,"radius":0.012,"segments":3},"position":[0,0.525,0]},{"type":"Mesh","material":"$hardware","geometry":{"type":"RoundedBoxGeometry","width":0.16,"height":0.035,"depth":0.14,"radius":0.008,"segments":3},"position":[0,0.018,0]}]},{"type":"Mesh","material":"$frame","geometry":{"type":"RoundedBoxGeometry","width":2.4,"height":0.075,"depth":0.1,"radius":0.018,"segments":3},"position":[0,1.0625,0]},{"type":"Mesh","material":"$frame","geometry":{"type":"RoundedBoxGeometry","width":2.28,"height":0.045,"depth":0.065,"radius":0.012,"segments":3},"position":[0,0.105,0]},{"type":"bimtex:Run","count":2,"from":[-0.585,0,0],"to":[0.585,0,0],"children":[{"type":"Mesh","material":"$glazing","geometry":{"type":"RoundedBoxGeometry","width":1.03,"height":0.78,"depth":0.02,"radius":0.012,"segments":3},"position":[0,0.56,0.018]},{"type":"bimtex:Run","count":2,"from":[-0.49,0,0],"to":[0.49,0,0],"children":[{"type":"Mesh","material":"$hardware","geometry":{"type":"RoundedBoxGeometry","width":0.08,"height":0.09,"depth":0.055,"radius":0.012,"segments":3},"position":[0,0.56,0.04]}]}]}]},"preview":{"projection":"perspective","azimuth":38,"elevation":15,"fov":34,"margin":1.03}}

Or take the whole pack, which brings every entry and every material at once:

cat packs/envelope.ndjson model.ndjson > dressed.ndjson
Download envelope pack 20 KB · NDJSON ↓