Creating Accurate Interior Door Openings Using Offset, Trim, and Extend Methods in Floor Plan Design

Let's continue with our interior door openings. We left off right here in the Jack and Jill bathroom, so let's move into this closet.

This closet has the same opening, five feet, and we see that it has the same condition, where this wall comes out and the door ends right there. We can do this kind of the opposite direction. We'll do extend first, EX, Enter.

We'll extend up to there. Enter to say I'm done. Now I'll go Offset, Enter, five feet, Enter, and we'll take this line to the left.

Enter to say I'm done. Now we can see that exact distance here after we do our trim. TR, Enter for trim, this line, this line, and this line, and I'll use my quick measure tool to see if that is one foot four, and we can see that the dimension of the line does say one foot four inches, so that is the appropriate opening.

Escape, Escape, Escape, and Control-S to save. Now we're gonna go into our master bedroom, but before we do that, let's make sure we can enter the master bedroom. This is a door that's often forgotten when you do this type of modeling because it's in this kind of weird hallway space.

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So this will be a three inch jam typical and a two foot six wide door. Offset, Enter, three, Enter. Choose this line and go over, click.

Enter to say I'm done, Enter to go back in, 30, Enter, here to here. TR, Enter for trim, holding Shift to extend, and releasing Shift to trim. All right, we'll finish with the doors in these two closets.

Let's go up first to the master bathroom. Down at the bottom is our first door, and then here is our second door. Both are two feet four inches wide, and they have three inch jam typical.

Offset, Enter, three, Enter, here and here. Enter to say I'm done, Enter to go back in, two feet four, Enter, here and here. Enter to say I'm done, TR, Enter for trim, holding Shift to extend, and releasing Shift to trim.

Holding Shift to extend, and releasing Shift to trim. Control S to save. All right, we only have two more door openings left, and it's in these two closets.

Now when we look at the two closet doors, they do line up vertically, but we'll do them one at a time because I don't want to intersect this wall and have it mess with us. So I'll come up here first. We see that it's two foot nine from this corner, so I'll do an Offset, Enter, two feet nine, Enter.

From here to here, Enter to say I'm done, Enter to go back in, two feet six, Enter. Here to here, Enter to say I'm done, TR, Enter for trim. One, two, three, four, Enter to say I'm done.

Now you'll notice that it's the same exact distance below, two feet nine and two feet six, Offset, two feet nine, Enter. Enter to say I'm done, Enter to go back in, two feet six, Enter. Here to here, Enter to say that I'm done.

Let's go TR, Enter. One, two, three, four, Enter to say that I'm done. Now we mentioned that we could have done those in the same operation earlier, but this is kind of a quick example to show we don't need to do everything at once.

Sometimes the most efficient workflow is to get used to a repetitive process and do it over and over in different locations without having to pan between locations in your model quite often. We had a lot of two foot six doors in the model and a lot of three inch jams. We could have done all of our jam offsets before we did our door offsets.

That seems like it might save some time, but there would have been a lot of panning around the model and we may have forgotten some door openings, either by offsetting their jams or we could have offset a jam and then we'd have some extra geometry laying around in our model. In this case, I'm quick with the workflow for offset, then trim and extend, and eventually the more you practice, you'll get used to that workflow as well. So in this case, it was more efficient for me to focus on one door at a time, maybe two doors at a time in some of these small bathrooms, and that way I could know exactly when I was done with one operation and move to the next.

Let's do a zoom extents, control S to save. All right, let's do a quick check of our floor plan and make sure we haven't missed any doors. Now, as a professional workflow, I like to print my PDF out and mark it with a highlighter, but you might mark it on a PDF editing software or you could try to keep track of it mentally.

Now, for those of you who were checking your PDF, you may have noticed we did miss one door. It's the door right here. Now, it would be very hard to keep track of this, especially in a larger project.

If you had even more doors or windows, you could easily lose one or two of those locations. So I always suggest keeping track either with a highlighter on pen and paper or in a highlighter in a PDF editing software like Bluebeam or Acrobat. So in this case, let's finish with our last door.

I'll zoom in right here. Offset enter, three enter from this line up. Enter to say I'm done, enter to go back in.

30 inches enter from this line up. Enter to say I'm done. TR enter for trim.

Let's extend, extend with holding shift and then trim when we release shift. Enter to say I'm done. Zoom extents and control S to save.

All right, we are now done with our door openings and in the next video, we will begin to add our doors. I'll see you there.