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Changing Door Attributes: Door leaf and doorframe


hamilton-black

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Hallo everyone. I would appreciate some help. When it comes to a Door with a Sidelight, I can not seem to change the colour/material of the doorleaf so that it differs to the door frame. For example here below, i wish to have a white doorleaf however in the list of attributes available, the doorleaf attrubute incorporates the Sidelight as well. So that i end up with all white or all gray. The door frame easy to change.  Have i done something wrong here. How else can i draw up a door with Sidelight so that the elements remain separate when it comes to attributes. 

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Are you using the "classes" section in the door settings?

 

To make things as confusing as possible, VW gives the various parts of the door names that don't really relate to what they are called in real life, nor does it build doors that are much like they are in real life.

 

I managed to get this using a different class for "panels" (leaf) and "jambs" (frame, sort of)

 

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The main reason for the differences is that the European distributors found that their customers did not think the US standard Door tool/object met their needs. So they developed a version for the localized version. that was better suited to the local needs.

 

Until now, Vectorworks in the US has not purchased the rights to the localized objects to be able to try and make a single version.

 

Personally, I think a single worldwide tool would end up with so many options that it would be close to unusable and that localized tools for specific needs are actually a good thing.

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ah ok. Good to know. Thank you. Still, it seems then, that the european version is much more limited. Which i hadn't expected. I even have to create a separate symbol Plug of rounded door handle because it isn't standard in the list of options for doors and now we're talking about having different options for colour and material between a door leaf and the Sidelight!!......this is all universal stuff. Ah well, thanks for clearing this up for me.

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