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Doors
A door is an AEC object that interacts with walls and door and window assemblies. You can also create freestanding
doors for door-type drawings.
Creating Doors
You can create doors using the typical design parameters for style, standard size, width and height, threshold height,
and head height. You can choose styles with glass shapes that receive standard muntins patterns, and create your own
custom glass shapes from profiles.
Door Styles
AutoCAD Architecture provides ready-to-use door styles. The design rules of a door style determine the default dimensions
of doors and the door shape and type
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The door shape determines the geometry of the door panel, such as rectangular, half-round, and arch. You can
also create custom door shapes from profiles.
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The door type determines the number of panels and the method of opening the door, such as single, double, bifold,
pocket, revolving, and overhead.
You can define standard sizes in a door style and then select the size you want to use when you place the door in a
drawing.
Anchoring Doors
After a door is placed in a wall or door and window assembly, the door is constrained to the object and cannot move
outside it.
Doors can also be anchored to specific locations in walls or door and window assemblies, so that when the wall or door
and window assembly moves or changes size, the location of the door in that object remains constant.
Door Dimensions
Some door dimensions depend on the shape and type specified in the door style.
Rise is the height from the top of the rectangular portion of a door to the peak of the door opening for Gothic, Arch,
and Peak Pentagon door shapes.
Leaf specifies the door size for pairs of Uneven, Uneven-Dhung, and Uneven Opposing door types. For more information
about leaf, see “
Changing the Door Leaf ” on page 1016.
Vertical Alignment of Doors
You use vertical alignment settings to control the placement of the door in the wall, the location of the working point
vertically in the wall, and how the door responds to modifications in height. To determine the working point on the
door, use the threshold and head height settings. You can place the working point at the sill or at the head. For example,
if you specify the vertical alignment as 0'' and the door height as 7'–0'', the door opening height is 7’–0''. If you next
specify the height of the door as 6'–8'', the door threshold remains at 0'' and the door opening height becomes 6’–8''.
For the door head working point, if you specify the vertical alignment as 7'–0'' and the door height as 7'–0'', the door
opening height is 7–0''. If you specify the door height as 6'–8'', the door head remains at 7'–0'' and the door threshold
becomes 4''.
Materials in Doors
You can assign materials to a door. Materials are displayed in wireframe and working shade views, or when rendered.
Materials have specific settings for individual components of a door, such as the panel, the stop, the frame, or a glass
inset.
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