topic Re: Edit Door casing design in GDL

Edit Door casing design

Ahmed_K — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 09:34:28 GMT

Hi,

a simple task : i want to edit the casing design like shown in the screenshot, can someone help me how to achieve this ?

Thanks.

By the way, after the shift for the global libraries, i think it's time to think about the library creation , custom components for doors and windows, etc,

in my case, it can be done just bu designing the case and save it as parts : side casing and top casing, and apply that on the door casing, but, no, you should learn GDL my friend 🙂

Re: Edit Door casing design

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 13:38:52 GMT

Which Door is this?

Is this a simple Door where you just specified a large value for the width of the Upper Frame of the Door?

I checked this in Ac28. Here is what happens:

The Master Script of Doors usually call the marco called

gs_general_lt_door_macro

The 3D Script of gs_general_lt_door_macro calls another macro called

GeneralDoorUnit

The 3D Script of GeneralDoorUnit calls the macro called

DoorFrame

And the 3D Script of DoorFrame generates the frame of the Door.

That is as far as I got. I think you would have to find that lines in the Script that generate the various (left, upper, right) portions of the Door Frame and modify those so the left/right frame go up the whole height of the Door, and the upper frame is generated between the left and right frames.

Re: Edit Door casing design

Ahmed_K — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 14:18:16 GMT

this is a sliding door from the archicad library (FR) , but the logic is the same for all languages i guess,

yes i set a large value for the upper casing , not the frame, only that horizontal junction type is available, i can't set it to vertical

Re: Edit Door casing design

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 14:35:09 GMT

This is why I am saying that you would need to delve into the GDL code of the 3D Script and find where it generates the frames that way. Then you can modify to GDL code to create the vertical junction type you need.

That is, if you have the GDL skills and the patience. 😉

Re: Edit Door casing design

Ahmed_K — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 14:43:28 GMT

Gdl skills , No

Patience: Yes, as long as it produces worthwhile results compared to effort 😅

i think I'll go with a workaround since it's a modelling for rendering purposes , i model the casing separately, and place it just in place aligned to the door

Re: Edit Door casing design

Lingwisyer — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 01:53:31 GMT

It would be nice if all doors and windows had a junction setting for the corners of each part...

I added it to one of my own custom windows, though it does require a decent number of extra lines....

Ling.