To open the tool settings of doors, select Edit ▸ Settings Window ▸ Door… or double-click the tool icon. You can load an existing Door Type if available or customize the door by selecting its family and setting all the parameters and options. Current settings can be saved as new types by pressing the Add icon.
The Door tool settings window includes two panels: Geometry and Options.
Door Geometry #
Use this panel to configure the parameters that define the shape and size of the door, such as width, height, reveal type, etc. The panel is provides the following options:
- Family. Open the drop-down menu to select the door family from the list. The available families include:
- empty opening
- simple door, a symbolic representation of a door
- swinging doors
- bypass sliding doors
- surface sliding doors
- pocket doors
- folding doors
- Widths. You can create a door either from its rough width or it nominal width.
- Rough (structural) Width is the width of the opening in the wall, including reveal and jambs.
- Nominal Width is the width of the actual door, that is rough width minus reveal and jambs.
- Heights. Use these fields to define:
- Rough Height: the total height of the door from its floor level.
- Sill Height: although uncommon for doors, you can define the height of the base of the door from its floor level.
- Reveal. Select the type of reveal. Depending on the type, you can specify its internal dimensions.
- Offset from Exterior. Defines the distance of the door from the exterior side of the host wall. It is only enabled when the selected reveal type does not already define this value.
- Insertion Point. Select the point where the opening should be inserted from: start, middle or end point. You can also choose to insert a door by its structural width. In this case, the insertion point is placed on the actual bounds of the opening.
Door Options #
Use this panel to specify the dimensions of the frame, opening directions, the optional sill and various display options.
- Frame Dimensions. Depending of the current reveal, you can specify the dimensions of the various components of the door frame.
- Opening Direction, outward or inward.
- Panel type. Select Glass to add a glass to the internal panel of the door.
- Show Sill. Activate the switch to enable the controls and define external and internal offsets and widths of the sill.
- Show Casing. Depending on the desired level of detail, you can choose to display the outside and inside casing component and specify its dimensions.
- Display Options:
- Select Open on opposite side to flip the opening direction.
- Show an axis line on the middle of the opening.
- Define the angle at which swinging door are displayed, ranging from 0° (closed door) to 90° (fully open).
- Wall Projection. Choose whether to display one, two or no projection lines of the host wall.