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Can I position the door to be located in the middle of the frame?

LeeJaeYoung
Virtuoso

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Can I position the door to be located in the middle of the frame?
There are many cases of center installation using the FLOOR hinge, so I will ask.

AC27 on window 11
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Karl Ottenstein
Moderator

The library has a single and a double door that swings both directions.  In the USA library, they are called "Double Acting" doors as seen here.

 

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For this library part, I haven't found a quick option for getting the door leaf centered in the frame though.   Years ago, this was easy by setting frame offset parameters - all of which seem to be missing now, although I could be blind.   I agree with you that center pivot is normal in almost all cases - not wall-flush as is done here.   This is the default appearance:

 

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One of the forum moderators
AC 27 USA and earlier   •   macOS Ventura 13.6.6, MacBook Pro M2 Max 12CPU/30GPU cores, 32GB

Well, I played with the parameters some more and was able to force the leaf inwards in the wall cavity ... but at the same time the door frame reduced in size and the casing code has a bug causing it to flip into the wall opening ... a bug that existed at least 10 or more years ago, sadly.  Also, the frame got thicker, without me having changed its parameters.  Other various ugly things happened as you can see.

 

Here's what I did and what I got, but I can't say it is useful. Sorry. The "No Reveal" option that I selected should really be called "Inset".

 

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One of the forum moderators
AC 27 USA and earlier   •   macOS Ventura 13.6.6, MacBook Pro M2 Max 12CPU/30GPU cores, 32GB
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