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Door with angled top

pcrossington
Contributor

I am trying to create a door with an angled top. There si no standard door object that allows for this (as there is one for windows) and when I try to create a custom door leaf, the leaf is correct, but the casing does not follow sit, like this:

 

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Any solutions out there?

 

Thanks,

 

Phil

 

Operating system used: Mac Intel-based BigSur 11.6.5

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Barry Kelly
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You will need to create a custom Door element (frame and all) from slabs in the plan view.

This may help ... https://help.graphisoft.com/AC/27/INT/index.htm?rhcsh=1&rhnewwnd=0&rhmapid=#t=_AC27_Help%2F040_Eleme...

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11

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Barry Kelly
Moderator

You will need to create a custom Door element (frame and all) from slabs in the plan view.

This may help ... https://help.graphisoft.com/AC/27/INT/index.htm?rhcsh=1&rhnewwnd=0&rhmapid=#t=_AC27_Help%2F040_Eleme...

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11

Ahh - makes sense, thank you!

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