Discover the step-by-step process of adding two foot six-inch doors using AutoCAD, including activating the rectangle tool, adjusting dimensions, and adding a door swing arc. The process also explores mirroring and rotating doors, using base point copying, and working with hinge points.
Key Insights
- AutoCAD allows for precise manipulation of door dimensions to create exact replicas of various door sizes. The process includes activating the rectangle tool and adjusting measurements such as a 1.5 inch door and the height for a two foot six inch door.
- Using base point copying and the delete key, original doors can be removed while their dimensions are preserved in the clipboard for future applications. This is especially useful when placing multiple doors of the same size within a design layout.
- AutoCAD's rotation and mirror functions allow for easy door placement in various orientations and positions. Angles can be locked in, and hinge points can be used as reference for rotation or mirroring, allowing for precise door placement.
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Let's do that same process again, but this time for the two foot six inch door. I'll zoom in over here, activate my rectangle tool, click anywhere to start, and I'll go d enter for dimension.
This is 1.5 for a one and a half inch door, and then our height for the door in this case is two feet six. Enter. I'll click to place, and let's add in our door swing arc.
Again, I'm going to go to the right, and I'm going to use control to flip my arc direction. I'll click the button to activate center start end. My first point is the left bottom end point.
My second point is the left top end point. I'm going to hold control to flip that arc angle, and choose the right bottom end point on my rectangle. There we go.
We have a two foot six inch door, and then I can copy with base point by selecting both objects, edit, copy with base point, and I'll choose this hinge point right here. All right, now that I've copied it to base point, I'm going to hit the delete key and delete out my original door. But when I hit control V, I can see that my two foot six inch door is in my clipboard.
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I'll hit escape. Let's pan over and start placing our two foot six inch doors. Let's start right here in the master bedroom.
This is a two foot six inch door, and it's already in the right orientation. Control V to paste, and click the hinge point right here. That's probably the easiest door we'll add for the rest of this video.
Next, let's add the door up here. This one's going to be a rotation of 180 degrees, and so we'll paste and place right here at the hinge point. Select both of my objects, rotate, choose the hinge point, and I'll type 180 for 180 degrees, and I'll hit ENTER.
There we go. Let's go down into this closet. This one's a little different.
It's going to be a mirror and a rotation. I'll paste, control V to paste. I'll click this end point right here, which is the hinge point.
Now first, we're going to mirror this down. So I'll go mirror, choose both of my objects, hit ENTER to lock it in. I'll mirror across this wall right here, so end point to end point.
Why enter? Yes, we want to erase our source objects, and now we need to rotate this back up 45 degrees so that it's partially open. I'll go rotate, pick both of my objects, enter to lock it in. The center point of my rotation will be the hinge point, the end point here, and I'll show the up direction, which is 45 degrees.
I'm rotating positive in AutoCAD. Because polar is still on, I can click when I see that polar object snap, and I can go TR, enter for trim, and trim out this arc. Enter to say that I'm done.
I'll do a zoom extents, control S to save. Let's go up to these double doors here. Now, this is a five foot wide door, and because our door that we currently have in the clipboard is two feet six, this door is essentially two of these facing each other.
So to start, I'll hit control V to paste, and I'll put the first one up here. Now we can rotate this down 90 degrees, so I'll go rotate both of my objects, enter to lock it in. I'll pick the hinge point, and I'll rotate down when I see that 270 degree angle, I can click.
And now we need to place another one here. Instead of pasting and then working on some operations, I can use this geometry right here. We can go mirror, pick both of these objects, hit ENTER to lock it in.
The first point of my mirror will be the end point of this hinge, and the second point will be along the zero degree angle, which is horizontal. And because polar is on, I can snap to that angle here by clicking on the screen. And in this case, we do want to keep the source objects.
We want to say no to the erase, and enter, and both of our objects are kept in the drawing. Control S to save. Let's keep going with these two doors.
These are both two foot six inch doors. I'll paste one here, and I'll paste one here. Okay, now it's pretty obvious to see that we chose the hinge point in both of these cases.
This one's a rotation of 180 degrees, and this one is a mirror along the bottom edge of our wall. Rotate these objects from this point, that's 180, enter, and this one's a mirror along the bottom of the wall. Mirror, pick my objects, enter, this end point to this end point.
We do want to erase source objects, Y, enter to erase. Zoom extents, Control S to save. All right, hopefully we're getting the hang of this process.
Let's keep going. I'll zoom in here on the laundry room. We can see this door is a two foot six door.
Control V to paste, I'll paste it right here. This is another mirror operation. Mirror, I'll pick these geometries, enter to lock it in.
Mirror along this wall, Y, enter to erase. All right, let's pan over into this bedroom. Control V to paste, that's on the hinge point.
This is a rotation down, so I'm going to go rotate, pick my geometry, enter, pick the hinge point, and I'll pick the opposite end point here to rotate down, and there we go. Now, this door and this door are both facing the opposite direction, so I'm going to go Control V to paste, and we're going to start with the door up here. I'm going paste on my hinge point, which is the upper left, and then this is a rotate in the positive AutoCAD direction, 90 degrees, so I'll go rotate, choose my door and my arc, enter from the hinge point, 90 degrees up, and click.
And now this door down here is going to be a mirror of this door. Now, the mirror point we can actually use is right here. This line is perfectly in between the hinge point here and hinge point here, because it is a connected line between both door openings.
So, let's do this together. I'll go mirror, picking my door and the door swing, enter to lock it in. My first point will be the midpoint of this exterior line.
My second point will be straight out in the zero direction. You can use polar if you see it and click, or you can lock in ortho. We do want to keep both, so we do not want to erase our source objects, and enter, and there we go.
We have both doors in, and we only needed to do one copy. Finally, let's put the door here. I'll zoom in, Control V to paste.
My hinge point is right here. And this one we're going to end on is a slightly tricky mirror operation. This is not simply a rotate, because if we rotated this down, the door would be in the opposite direction.
We can mirror this along the 135 degree angle, and that angle I'll draw in with my construction line, just so we can visualize it. There it is, the 135 degree angle. So, we're going to mirror this door over the line, and instead of a vertical line, it'll be horizontal, and the door swing will follow, so this point will end up right here.
I'm going to erase the construction line, and let's just try the mirror together. I'll go mirror, picking the rectangle and the arc, enter to lock it in. The first point of my mirror will be the endpoint on the hinge, and I'm going to show that 135 degree angle and click.
Before I hit yes or no, so you can see how this is mirrored across that 135 degree angle. This point went to here, this point went to here. I do want to erase my source objects, so I will go Y, enter to erase, and let's zoom extents, control S to save.
All right, there we go. We have no more 2'4 or 2'6 doors that have a swinging hinge. We do have some 2'6 sliding doors, but we'll add those in a minute.
For now, in the next video, we will add the rest of our swinging doors at the front door and in the garage. I'll see you in the next video.
