Door leaf width not showing correctly in 3D

[pcrossington]

I have created a custom door slab, using slabs to create it. It appears correctly in plan, but in 3d, the door panel is not as wide as the door opening. The door is supposed to be 6'x8', but it only shows as 5'-3" wide.

 

Your help is appreciated!

Phil

Operating system used: Mac Apple Silicon tahoe 26.5.1

 

[Patrick M · Accepted solution]

you likely have a 2d something selected when you saved the door (maybe a line or hotspot). It's actually a cool trick when you want to undersize a custom door leaf for an overhead gap or under door clearance.

[pcrossington]

Patrick:

OMG - that's exactly it! How the H did you figure that one out?

You're right - it's a great hack for those really custom situations.

Thanks so much!

Phil

[Patrick M]

yeah, thats me with 21 years of messing things up at work...

[Lingwisyer]

Custom door leafs will always stretch to fit their bounding box to the leaf panel size. For ones saved out of the floor plan, this will always be uniformly. So if there is a gap, there was something included when saved that increased the bounding box. Unfortunately, this includes any features that you may have protruding from the panel face. If you script one, you can control which part stretches by linking your desired dimensions to the root parameters A, B and ZZYZX.

In the case of an undercut, which is probably more important to stay consistent regardless of the panel size, it should be pretty easy to add a single static hotspot at the bottom of the objects 3D script sperated from the generated script with an ADDy [undercut] and MULy [(B-undercut)/B] enclosing the generated script.

Ling.