topic Re: Door Placement / Elevations in Door Schedules in Libraries & objects

Door Placement / Elevations in Door Schedules

griggadee — Fri, 26 May 2023 09:16:15 GMT

Ok folks,

Here is a tricky one for you!

See the attached image. How can I make the door placement point jump from where it is (circled red) to the other side (circled blue), whilst keeping the door swing etc exactly the same?

The reason being, on my door schedule, I always state 'viewed from the hinged side' when referring to the door elevations, so to avoid any confusion. Normally, with a right handed door, i.e. when viewed from the hinged side, the hinges are on my right, the door handle will correctly show on the left on my door schedule elevation. However, in the instances where that red circled point is on the opposite side to the door swing, the handle shows on the wrong side in the door elevation. Tedious stuff!

I am sure I have just placed my doors in an incorrect manner, even though they look correct in my floor plans, and this is now coming back to bite me with my door schedule.

Any suggestions that don't involve reinserting all of the offending doors again would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Re: Door Placement / Elevations in Door Schedules

Eduardo Rolon — Sun, 13 Apr 2014 01:27:45 GMT

If I remember correctly you will need to use "Flip" in the door settings and then mirror the door, though I am not 100% correct that it will work.

Re: Door Placement / Elevations in Door Schedules

Barry Kelly — Sun, 13 Apr 2014 01:54:31 GMT

To get the door in the same position (swing) you will need to Flip it then Mirror it then Rotate it 180°.
Barry.

Re: Door Placement / Elevations in Door Schedules

griggadee — Sun, 13 Apr 2014 11:12:58 GMT

Hi chaps,

Thanks for the suggestions but unfortunately neither of them solve the problem.

By flipping it, mirroring it, and then rotating it 180 degrees, the door comes back to the same position, but that reference point stays on the same side.

Any other suggestions?

Cheers,

Re: Door Placement / Elevations in Door Schedules

Eduardo Rolon — Sun, 13 Apr 2014 13:35:48 GMT

The only way I could get them to "flip" was by rotating the wall after placing the door. Apparently AC decides which side to place it by the direction you drew the wall (up/down, left/right) and the reference line has nothing to do with it. So either this is a bug or it has always worked like this.

Re: Door Placement / Elevations in Door Schedules

griggadee — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 17:38:53 GMT

Thanks for your help ejrolon, but I must say, I am absolutely gobsmacked that this is the only option. I have just spent two days rotating all of the walls with the offending doors in them, as it does appear that this is the only work around.

It is a really big fail on the part of the developers that this hasn't been picked up and solved already. There really should be an option to select (& change) the side from which the doors and windows are viewed from in the schedule elevations. The fact that ArchiCAD just randomly decides on this when you initially draw the walls is just bonkers! It should at least be when you place the doors / windows.

Come on Graphisoft... get on the case!