Need Pocket door

[Eric Milberger]

I need a sliding POCKET door - cannot find one and cannot modify the sliding door to the center of the wall

Operating system used: Windows 11

[Karl Ottenstein]

Well, you may not like it, but it is what we've had for 20+ years... with a bug that they never fix:  all you have to do is modify the door panel offset to get it into the wall cavity.  Why they've never managed to do that / fix that in all these years with more bug reports than you can count is something for them to respond to.

The plus that you see - looking for silver lining - is that it lets you do the 'barn style' external sliding door that seems so popular (in spite of letting noise, dust and light through)...albeit without a track.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Yes, the offset - using the Reveal parameter - is annoying that we have to compute it ourselves based on our wall thickness...vs the door reading the wall thickness and doing the math based on door slab thickness.   But, when adjusted, you get what you want as in this screenshot...

 

[Jeff Thompson · Accepted solution]

Karl is correct.  I placed my pocket door in a 5 1/2" wall and adjusted the Reveal to Wall Face setting to 2 1/2".  That looked good to me for the representation of a pocket door.  It might take some time to get to know all the settings in the Pocket Door Selection Settings, but by making the necessary changes to the settings, it should produce a pretty good representation.  As always, I'm happy to help in any way that I can.  Good luck.

[Eric Milberger]

Thanks everyone it works fine.  Just the terms for what was needed to change is foreign.

[Eric Milberger]

 I guess what threw me off was that out of the box it was not a slinding door.  Maybe it should be delivered wiht setting pr a change that the default is actually a sliding door by default. 

[Karl Ottenstein]

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@Eric Milberger wrote:

 I guess what threw me off was that out of the box it was not a slinding door.  Maybe it should be delivered wiht setting pr a change that the default is actually a sliding door by default. 

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It is a sliding door by default... the door panel is just outside the wall.  It has a hotspot to let you adjust the sliding position, the only way it can move.  Not sure what you're trying to say?