Learn the step-by-step process of creating doors in a CAD file and adjusting their size and placement for a storefront plan. This article also teaches you how to copy and paste these elements from one level to another and adjust wall heights to align with your design plan.
Key Insights
- The process of creating doors in a CAD file begins with choosing the right type, with 36 by 84 being a common option. These doors are then placed according to the storefront plan, with adjustments made as necessary.
- After creating the doors on the first level, these elements can be copied and pasted to the second level using the selection tool and the copy to clipboard function. Adjustments can also be done on this level as needed.
- Finally, wall heights can be adjusted to align with the design plan. This involves setting them to go up to the roof rather than the top of the parapet, with the model saved once all adjustments are made.
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Gone ahead and jumped over to my Existing Level One plan here, and I'm gonna create the doors that we see at these locations. This is part of a storefront, so we'll create those with the windows. So I'll use the 'Door' command, and I'm gonna check to make sure I've got the right type, 36″ × 84″ sounds good to me.
And then we'll just place these in the general location that's shown on the CAD file here. And if we need to go back and make some adjustments, we can definitely do that. But I think we're gonna get pretty close by placing it.
Like you see here, I'm kind of just lining it up, and it seems to be working pretty well. We'll just keep doing that. And then we'll have to do the same thing on Level Two, and this one's a little difficult, so I'll just zoom in a little bit more.
And it's not really a big deal, because I can always go in, and you can see it's off by just a little bit. But I can easily go in here, and I can make that adjustment. And so typically what we would do with doors like this is we'd wanna make sure that that value here from the face of the wall to the jamb is four inches.
If I make that one four inches, seems like we're good, and it's really not uncommon for it to be different from what you see on an existing CAD, but we'll maintain that one. And then I can go ahead, and I can literally just copy it down from endpoint to endpoint. And I'll have the door that I need for all three of those rooms.
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Now, these doors and these walls also need to exist on Level Two. So I could go ahead and using my 'Selection' tool by just clicking on that wall, and then holding down the 'Control' key, I can select the doors and the walls that I want to copy to Level Two. So I'll grab this chunk right here, and I'll 'Copy to Clipboard.'
And then I can go to my Existing Level Two, and you can see we're just seeing the CAD file on Level One below. But I can now go to 'Modify, ' use the bottom side of paste, and I can say 'Paste Aligned to Current View, ' and it'll paste them in place. Now the doors I can place, I could have done the copy as well, but there's only a couple up here, so it's not a big deal.
I'll just go ahead and add these two. We certainly don't want this one going outside because we're on Level Two now, and that would not be a great door. But there we go.
That's all of our doors for both Level One and Level Two. If we look at our '3D' view, we want to double check to make sure everything looks good. And I can see that these walls are actually too tall.
So what I can do is I can set them to go up to Roof instead of Top of Parapet. It looks like I missed one there. And it'll make the adjustment that we're looking for.
And this is what our model should look like at this stage in the project. So I'll go ahead and save, and we'll continue on in the next video.
