Discover how to draw doors on a floor plan using software tools. Follow a step-by-step guide to create both single and double doors, complete with dimensions and door swing indication.
Key Insights
- The creation of a door on a software-rendered floor plan begins with drawing rectangles to depict the door's dimensions. For instance, a three feet wide door would require two rectangles, each with dimensions of 1.5 x 3 feet.
- To showcase the door swing, an arc is added starting from the hinge point to the end point of the door. This element provides a realistic representation of the door's functionality on the floor plan.
- For specialized doors, like the Jack and Jill sliding doors, the rectangle is placed in a specific location to depict the door in a partially open state. The placement point is determined by tracking a point six inches to the left of the midpoint of the door opening.
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Let's draw some of our remaining swinging doors for our floor plan. Let's zoom in on the front door, and remember this front door is actually two three feet wide doors, and one of the doors is closed.
We're going to draw in two rectangles. I'll go to my rectangle tool. My first door will be right here.
I'll go d enter for dimensions. My X dimension will be 1.5, enter, and my y dimension will be three feet, enter. I'll click up into this positive quadrant, and now let's draw the same rectangle here, but flipping the X and y values.
Rectangle, choose my hinge point. I'm going to show this direction, although that won't matter until I have to choose my quadrant. D enter for dimensions.
My X dimension this time will be three feet, and my y dimension will be 1.5, enter. Now you can see I'm in the negative quadrant, and that's the quadrant we want to be in, and click, and that's a quick and easy way to draw both of these doors. Now let's draw in the door swing for this rectangle.
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I'll go arc center start end, choose my hinge. I'll come across and choose this end point of my other door, and then I'll come up and choose the left end point of this door. Okay, let's pan down into our garage.
This door here is also a three foot door, so I'll go rectangle. This is my hinge. D enter, 1.5, enter, three feet, enter.
I'll choose the positive y, but the negative X, so that's up and to the left, and then I can do my arc. This time I'll choose my hinge point, then the top of the door, and around to the end here. All right, finally is this door here in the corner of the garage.
This door is two feet eight wide. Rectangle, the hinge point is here. D enter, 1.5, enter, is my X, two feet eight is my y. I'll click here, arc center.
My start point can be here, and my end point can be here. All right, zoom extents, and control s to save. The remaining doors we have in this project are our bifold doors, which are on our closets.
The jack and jill sliding doors, and the garage doors. Let's work on the jack and jill sliding doors, and then we'll do the bifold and garage doors in the next video. The jack and jill sliding doors are fairly simple.
They're just a rectangle that happens to be the same size as a two foot six door rectangle, but placed in a very specific location. Let's go rectangle. This rectangle can be started anywhere on the drawing, but I'll choose right there.
D enter for dimension. This is going to be two feet six, enter, and then our width, or the y value, is 1.5, enter. You can choose any quadrant you'd like, because we're about to copy this into the appropriate location.
This door has to be placed in a specific location to make it look like the door is not all the way open, or all the way closed, but right here, so that it looks like it's sliding. That point is going to be a six inch difference between the door opening, and the door itself. We're going to track a point six inches to the left of the midpoint here, and copy it at the midpoint of this line, and of this line.
Okay, so let's go copy, choose my rectangle, and enter to lock in my objects. Now the first base point is going to be the TRA tracking point. TRA enter.
From the midpoint, I'll show to the left, six, enter. Enter to say I'm done tracking. Now I'm going to zoom in close to choose the midpoint here, and I'll zoom in close to choose the midpoint here.
Hit ENTER to say that you're done. Select this rectangle, and hit delete. Let's go zoom extents, and control s to save.
In the next video we will do our bifold doors, and our garage doors. I'll see you there.
