VW23 Door Interactive Insertion Mode & Swing Direction

[dhughes3]

The new interactive insertion method for doors and windows is great for speedily creating as-built drawings from point clouds. One issue for doors though is that they always open to the left side of the wall they are inserted into - is there a way to control this direction other than drawing all the doors and then going back and clicking "flip" lots of times oin the OIP?

[TomKen]

I just tried this.  If you click/click left to right you get a left swing door,  if you click/click right to left you get a right swing door.  However it always has the door open to the outside of wall.

So now all we need is a third click for the swing direction,  or have the swing direction determined by which side of the wall you place your second click.

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[Matt Panzer]

On 1/13/2023 at 5:15 AM, dhughes3 said:

The new interactive insertion method for doors and windows is great for speedily creating as-built drawings from point clouds. One issue for doors though is that they always open to the left side of the wall they are inserted into - is there a way to control this direction other than drawing all the doors and then going back and clicking "flip" lots of times oin the OIP?

 

On 1/20/2023 at 11:42 AM, TomKen said:

I just tried this.  If you click/click left to right you get a left swing door,  if you click/click right to left you get a right swing door.  However it always has the door open to the outside of wall.

So now all we need is a third click for the swing direction,  or have the swing direction determined by which side of the wall you place your second click.

 

This is something we currently have on the radar.  The original plan was to have no additional clicks and simply have it swing toward the direction of the cursor from the centerline of the wall.  IOW: If the second click is towards the exterior side of wall, the door will swing out and vice versa.  Due to time constraints, this behavior was put on hold.  But definitely on the radar.  🙂