Sales & Quotations
Choose glass for an opening
What this does
Sets what actually fills each opening — the specification that drives cost, weight, hardware and lead time more than any other choice in the design.
Steps
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Open the design from the quotation line.
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Select the panel you want to specify — each sash and each fixed light is its own panel.
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Choose the glass build: single, double glazed, laminated, toughened, or a combination.
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Set the thickness and any coating, tint or spacer the specification calls for.
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Repeat for every panel that differs, then save.
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Re-run Analyze Design so the glass area and the price follow.
What the choice changes downstream
- Weight — heavier units need heavier hardware, and the hardware rules pick it automatically from the sash size and weight.
- Glass area — Total Glass (m²) drives both the glass order and much of the price.
- Lead time — laminated and coated units are rarely stock items; the difference shows up as a late job, not a warning.
Example
A villa's ground-floor sliders are specified 6 mm clear on the drawing. Changed to 6-12-6 double glazed with a low-e coating, the same design gains weight per sash — and the hardware set the analysis picks changes with it, because the rules key on sash weight.
Common mistakes
- Specifying glass on one panel and assuming the rest inherited it. Panels are specified individually on purpose.
- Changing the glass and not re-analysing, so the quoted price is for the old build-up.
- Agreeing a delivery date on a special coated unit without checking whether it is a stocked product.
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