Delve into the intricate process of modeling interior door openings in this comprehensive guide. The article presents a step-by-step walkthrough, including specifics like specifications for entry doors, closets, and pocket doors.
Key Insights
- The article provides detailed steps to model the entry door, closet, and Jack and Jill bathroom doors, specifying dimensions such as a three-inch jam for the entry door and a 10-inch offset for the closet.
- During the modeling process, the article emphasizes the importance of frequently using the 'Enter' and 'T-R' commands to specify dimensions and actions, and the 'Shift' function to extend or trim lines.
- The guide also discusses a more complex process of setting up a pocket door, providing precise instructions on how to create a pocket that is slightly larger than the width of the door, and how to incorporate a nominal door thickness of one and a half inches.
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Let's continue to go around our model with our interior door openings. Let's come into this guest bedroom.
We'll start with the entry door. It's a three-inch jam typical from this edge. So Offset, Enter, three, Enter.
Here down, Enter to say I'm done, Enter to go back in, 30, Enter. Here to here, Enter to say I'm done. Let's go Trim, T-R, Enter.
Holding Shift to extend here and here. And of course, releasing to trim those lines. Let's look at this closet.
This closet has a five feet opening and it's a 10-inch offset from this bottom wall here. Offset, Enter, 10, Enter. Here to here, Enter to say I'm done, Enter to go back in, five feet, Enter.
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Here to here. Now I want you to notice something. These two lines are lined up.
So in this case, we didn't really need to do our five foot offset, but it's always good to double check. So in this case, I'll delete this line and let's go Trim, T-R, Enter. We'll extend this line and this line right here.
And now we can trim out here, here, and here. Enter to say that I'm done. I'll do that one more time.
We did our 10-inch offset and then we'll use this line, T-R, Enter, Shift for extend here and here, releasing Shift, one, two, three. Enter to say that I'm done. Okay, let's work on the doors in this Jack and Jill bathroom.
And we'll come back and do these sliding doors in a second. The door here is a two foot six and it has a three-inch jam typical. Offset, Enter, three, Enter, here, down, Enter to say I'm done, Enter to go back in, 30, Enter, here, down, Enter to say I'm done.
T-R, Enter, we'll hold Shift to extend these out and release Shift to trim them out. Okay, the doors that go in here, we can do next. Now, we will work on the pocket of the pocket door, but let's set these up as if they were a regular door opening first.
We can see here that this wall extends into that line and that is where the door starts and opens. And then we can see the opening for both of these doors are two feet six. One thing to note about these doors is they are lined up.
So let's use this line and extend it to this line and then let's offset that so that we can make both door openings at the same time. I'll go E-X, Enter to extend. I'll do B, Enter for a boundary edge.
I'll choose this as my boundary edge. Enter to lock that in and then we'll use this line to extend. Enter to say that I'm done.
Now, let's go Offset, Enter, 30, Enter and we'll use this full edge to come across to the right. Enter to say that I'm done. Now, we can see exactly where we need to trim out to have two door openings.
T-R, Enter. I'll start with this line. I can trim out from the middle here and here and then one, two, three, four.
Enter to say that I'm done. Okay, now let's put those pockets into these doors. Right here.
Now, the opening of the door is two feet six and so this pocket can be drawn at two feet six. So, we're gonna go back in this direction two feet six. We also want the pocket opening to be slightly larger than the width of the door.
Now, the doors are gonna be one and a half inches thick and that's a nominal distance. So, we're gonna make the pocket of this door two inches thick nominally. So, to draw this, I'm simply going to offset this line up two and two so that we have a pocket right in the middle.
Remember, this is a six inch wide wall and then we'll offset this line back two foot six. Offset, Enter. Two, Enter.
I'll go here up and here up. There we go. Enter to say I'm done.
Enter to go back in. Two feet six, Enter. We'll grab that vertical line.
You might have to zoom in and I'll go to the left and click. Enter to say that I'm done. Now, we can actually use trim or fillet here and in this case, I'm gonna use fillet.
It'll be slightly easier to see for this back corner. Fillet. It's gonna be this line here.
We're gonna turn up. There we go. Enter to say go back into fillet.
I'll click this line and turn this time to the right. Finally, we can trim out that little piece right there. Tr, Enter.
And I'll click that little opening. And there we go, we've trimmed the line out. Enter to say that I'm done.
Control S to save. Now, we want the same pocket up here. So, we're only gonna need to copy these three lines and then we can trim out the front once again.
