VectorWorks Doors

[billgore]

I'm adding doors to my plan and I have some doors that are going to have 2" wide frames at the jambs but at the head I need it to be 4". how would one go about doing this?

[CipesDesign]

Like this??

[brudgers]

I think he means the frame, not the leaf.

Such frames are common for commercial 7'-0" doors in masonry walls.

So far as I am aware, the standard door plugin cannot have a variable width frame...at least that's the case in VW2008.

It can be faked for rendering by:

set jamb width = 0

interior trim = 2

exterior trim = 2

lintel thickness = 2

lintel angle = 90

exterior trim thickness = interior trim thickness = lintel protrusion

assign same material to lintel and trims.

For 2d you will get a line betwen the trim and lintel.

[CipesDesign]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too... Ah well - sigh -

[billgore]

Yeah I was talking about the frame. I don't see any way to do it. It would be nice to get that worked into the next version though. We do a lot of commercial masonry structures and the 4" head frame with 2" jambs is kind of common.

[brudgers]

Yeah I was talking about the frame. I don't see any way to do it. It would be nice to get that worked into the next version though. We do a lot of commercial masonry structures and the 4" head frame with 2" jambs is kind of common.

You could use a custom symbol and attach a door record to it if you really need the 3d enough to justify it.

Otherwise, it could be handled with schedules and legends and a little drafting.

[Jeffrey W Ouellette]

Can WinDoor do it?

[gScott]

in the windoor 12.5 PIO:

'opening sizes + types'

'custom head settings'

change 'none' to 'sloping up from left'

'create mullions + transom'

'slope' = 0

'left spring' = 2"

'right spring' = 2"

'component sizes + style'

'common components'

'jamb thickness' = 2"

this makes the leaf 2" shorter,

so raise the overall height 2"

if you want a standard door height

this will not give a horizontal

line across the "middle" of the top

frame in a hidden line view...

but it only works where the head

is to be 2x or less the jambs'

dimension...

[Gabriel Dziekiewicz]

I switched from VW11.5 to 2010 recently. I noticed my file is not showing swings or leafs on any of my interior doors. I see the frame in plan but nothing else. All appropriate classes seem to be on.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[michaelk]

Is it possible that the configuration is set to "cased opening" or

the 3D open angle is set to 0?

(I've made both those mistakes...)