Learn how to add and align doors with precision in a design project using specific commands and tools. Understand how to adjust dimensions to match the needs of the project and how to prevent potential errors in the future by ensuring clear communication between the type in the project and its naming.
Key Insights
- The process of adding and aligning doors within a project requires a solid understanding of the commands and tools available within the design platform. For example, the align tool can help ensure correct placement and alignment of doors.
- Adjusting door dimensions to match project requirements involves duplicating and editing the type of door. This includes changing the width and height parameters to match the type name assigned, such as 28 by 80 for a 2 foot 4 by 80 inches door.
- Keeping the type name and the actual type parameters in sync is crucial for preventing potential errors and communication breakdown in the project. Hence, it's essential to ensure that the numbers correspond accurately to the door dimensions.
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The next door that we're going to add is going to be the door on this side, and this door is going to be a three foot wide door. So I'll activate the door command, this time I'm going to use the keyboard shortcut, so DR, and then I'll set the type. This one's going to be 36 × 80, so I'll find it in my options here, there it is.
And then I will place the door, and so I want it to swing into the space with the hinge side closer to this wall here, so just like you see it there. And what I'm going to do to place this door is I'm actually going to use a different tool, so I'll hit escape twice to get out of the door tool, and what I'm going to do is I want these jams to align here and here, so I'm going to use from my modify tab, I'm going to use the align tool, and this tool is awesome. It's very helpful for a lot of different things.
If I were to the align tool, what I could do is I could pick this door jam, because that's the destination point for the other door, and then now this is the object I want to move, so I'll select that one, and the door then will align in place. So I know, since I placed this one correctly, that this door is now aligned and in the correct location as well. The next door I want to place is the one that's going into our bathroom here, and that door is going to be a 2 foot 4 × 80 inch door.
If I look at my door types here, you can see I've got 30 × 80, which is 2 foot 6, so I'm really looking for a 28 × 80, and I don't have that one, so I'll pick the 30 × 80, and since I want to make a new door type, since we're changing the dimensions here, I'll say edit type, and then I'll say duplicate, and just something to keep in mind here is that these numbers aren't really random. They actually have a purpose, and that's to tell us, the modeler here, to tell us what door type that we're using. If I call this 28 × 80, which is the size we're looking for, for 2 foot 4 × 80 inches, then I need to make sure that my type parameters actually match that, because this is just a name that we're giving it, and so it's helpful that if I call it 28 × 80, that I change the width parameter here to actually be 2 foot 4 or 28 inches.
So you can see they correspond. So 2 foot 4,28 inches. The height here, 6 foot 8,80 inches.
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So it all matches up together to where that we have it set the way we want it. If those numbers didn't correspond, then we're just going to have a breakdown of communication between the actual type in the project and what the user has named it, and that's something that could cause potential errors in the future. So I'll go ahead and hit OK, and I'm going to place the door.
So I want the hinge exactly the way we show it here, and it's swinging in that direction, and we're going to follow our 3 inch standard location. If I pick on the door again, I could use these and the temporary dimension to make that work for me by picking on those dots, and you can see I got lucky here, but that's not always the case. We'll type it in, and now I have all the doors placed for my project.
