topic Re: Garage door swing AC10 in Modeling

Garage door swing AC10

TDabney — Thu, 25 May 2023 16:18:00 GMT

Please forgive me if this has been recently discussed - I've been busy at work and unable to follow along w/AC-Talk as often as I'd like. I've always been a bit confused with the way AC establishes what side of the door is the inside vs. outside, but usually can adjust things to get the look I'm after. I'm having a difficult time w/the garage doors in AC10 however - please see the attachment below.

Basically, in the wall shown, the "inside" is up and the "outside" is down. In plan view, the garage door should be located toward the "inside" of the wall as shown by the door to the left - however in doing so, in elevation, the exterior face of the door is facing "inside", not "outside". The only way to get the door panel to show the exterior face to the "outside", is to locate the door to the "outside" of the opening. Ofsetting w/in the opening doesn't seem to work w/garage doors?

Where am I going wrong?

Thanks,
Tom

Re: Garage door swing AC10

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:01:16 GMT

Tom,
It appears that Graphisoft has made an error in this library part.
Every garage door I have seen has the reveal to the outside
and the panel is set against the interior surface of the garage wall
or against stops to the inside of the opening.
This is necessary for the operation of the opening mechanism
whether it is a tilt-up or overhead.
I just checked and AC 9's garage door
is correct so you could use that one.
Peter Devlin

Re: Garage door swing AC10

TDabney — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:42:58 GMT

Peter -
Thanks for verifying that it's not something I'm doing or missing. I will use the door from AC9 - or maybe from Window/Door Builder.

Thanks,
Tom

Re: Garage door swing AC10

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:17:01 GMT

And I thought that I was the only one having this problem. Can the V9 door just be loaded or do you have to load the whole V9 library?

Jim

Re: Garage door swing AC10

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:29:44 GMT

Jim,
If your v 9 library is extracted you can make a duplicate,
name it so that it does not conflict with the v 10 name,
and drop it into your extracted 10 library.
Peter Devlin

Re: extracting AC9 lib

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:18:15 GMT

Peter wrote:
If your v 9 library is extracted

Hi Peter Devlin,
sorry if I am off-topic, but how can I extract the v 9 library?

Re: extracting AC9 lib

David Maudlin — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:26:53 GMT

oops2 wrote:
sorry if I am off-topic, but how can I extract the v 9 library?

oops2:

Go to File > Open and find the ArchiCAD Library 9.pla (or AC9 Library Special Edition.pla) in Applications>Graphisoft>ArchiCAD 9>ArchiCAD 9 Library (this is Mac, Windows should be similar).

When opening the .pla file you wil be given 3 options, choose "Extract Elements to a folder". You will then choose a folder for ArchiCAD to place all of the extracted parts into.

You will then be able to find the individual parts you want to use and move into your loaded libraries. For these parts to work correctly, you also may need to load the "MACROS 9" folder found in this extracted library.

Note to ArchiCAD 10 users: this procedure has been changed, to open a .lcf file you use the new "Extract a Container ..." command.

HTH,

David

Re: Garage door swing AC10

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 04:56:17 GMT

David Maudlin,
Thanks for the tips

Re: Garage door swing AC10

LiHigh — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 07:28:04 GMT

You guys don't have to go back to Library 9!

GS had added a new Parameter "Opening Direction". Just simply set to either "inside" or "outside" that will suit the circumstances.

Re: Garage door swing AC10

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:38:54 GMT

LiHigh,
Thank you for pointing this out to us.
Peter Devlin

Re: Garage door swing AC10

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:47:33 GMT

I wish it was that easy. I have been there done that. Once you choose the correct opening direction (which places the door finish/pattern at the exterior) it still puts the door flush to the exterior of the wall, not set back to the interior like it should be. I still think that Peter is right that there is an error in this library part(s). Every garage door in the (us) V10 does this.

Jim