#cadimage

[patmay81]

Cadimage door swing

There are a few instances in archicad where a view or attribute setting can get buried behind custom components or attribute overrides. The pen settings of an opening in a wall with a demo’d window or door may not be obvious.  The pocket door lines are also somewhat hidden when the door is in a composite wall; Shoegnome does a good job of explaining the solution for both. Recently we had an issue with door swings not showing on elevation or 3d views for a custom door panel applied to a Cadimage door. The problem is the door swing spacing (inside to outside panel faces) is set by the noncustom panel thickness. By applying a custom panel you loose access to this setting.

The solution is to make sure you set the panel width to match the custom thickness before you apply the custom panel or sash.  The default is 1 3/4" or 1 3/8"; so if your custom panel is thicker, make sure you match or exceed the panel thickness in the above setting control before you apply the custom panel.

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Cadimage door threshold

There has been some discussion about the best way to handle door thresholds and the Cadimage settings.  There is a toggle for a threshold, but it does not affect the 3d view... unless you give it a dimension.

This is not a toggle to turn on or off the threshold, but rather extends the jamb element across the base of the door opening for a given thickness.  There is apparently no way to apply a sill or threshold object, with a given profile, but if you need a 3d element to show a stand off height for the base of the door in plan, section and elevation this is how you do it.

If you need the threshold or sill plate to be a material other than your door frame, or need a specific profile, then the solution will have to be a custom beam, slab, morph or object set into the door opening and not linked to the door component.

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A follow up to door orientation and schedules

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about proper door orientation for assigning doors to zones in schedules and lists.

It has since come to my attention that there is a potentially simpler way to solve this problem.  Inside the Cadimage door settings there is a toggle to assign the door to the zone it opens to, or not.

Both methods are perfectly acceptable, but we should certainly try to use this solution specifically for exterior doors with an out swing orientation.

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Yesterday we came across a puzzling trouble shooting problem when applying a custom sash to a Cadimage window.  The sash, in both 3d and plan symbol, sat outside the wall line and window frame; as if it were applied to the face of the wall, not sitting inside the wall and window.

The solution, as Chris discovered, is to use the Fixed Sash in the panel type rather than the Fixed Pane.