Explore the process of adding doors to a design plan, including the selection and placement of various door types. This article also covers the steps to take if the desired door type is not initially available in your library.
Key Insights
- The process begins with the selection of desired doors for insertion into the plan, for instance, interior doors at the stairs.
- If the desired door type is not available in the current library, the 'edit type' and 'load' options can be used to access more choices. An alternative is to use the 'insert load family from the cloud' option, if available.
- The orientation of the door swing is adjustable, and changes can be applied to both sides. After placement, further detailing and dimensioning can be performed in preparation for the first print.
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I'm going to jump back into my Level One plan here. The two doors that I'm going to add initially are for my interior doors at the stair—these two here. Then I'm going to change this curtain-wall panel type.
And remember, because it's a storefront that we created, we need to unpin it, and we're going to look for the door type that we want.
If it's loaded, that's great. If it's not—which it doesn't look like it is—no big deal, because we can just go to Edit Type and load it.
If you go through this process and aren't able to find it in your Imperial library, you can use the Insert → Load Family from the Cloud option that we have. So I'll go to Doors, and then we're looking for our curtain-wall door. We've got these options.
This is a single, full-height glass door. Or we have the double storefront type, and this is a single door. We're going to go with the single, full-height glass one, which is a nice door to have.
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Then we'll hit OK, and I'll just make sure that the swing is in the right orientation.
Next, I'll go ahead and do the same thing on this side: unpin it and change the type. You can see the most recently used one is here as well.
That one ended up swinging in the right direction, and it looks pretty good. Now we have all of our doors, minus this guy here, for Level One interior and exterior. We're going to put a door over here as well, and we're getting close to starting to do some detailing and dimensioning and things like that to get it ready for our first print.
