Modeling
About Archicad's design tools, element connections, modeling concepts, etc.

Pocket Doors Problem

Ted Taylor
Contributor
I have a couple of Pocket Doors both D1 & D2 from the latest U.S. version of 9's library that I am trying to use and like most of the doors supplied by Archicad, they have problems of one sort or another. But that is about a 3 day rant.

Anyway.

Problem with pocket doors is in plan, the door panel is not in the stud cavity, but one face of the door panel goes to the exterior face of the wall. I am hoping that some of you GDL wizards out there might be able to point to the code that would put it right. Maybe it won't be a major rewrite. Otherwise I'm back to patching and the *%$%$ drawing looks like my Grandmother's quilt already.

Thanks.
Ted Taylor
Atlanta, GA , USA
iMac (Retina 5K, 27", Late 2015)
3.3 GHz Intel Core i5 32GB
AMD Radeon R9 M395 2GB
OS10.14.2,
Latest Archicad 22
3 REPLIES 3
Stress Co_
Advisor
Ted:

Does this help?

You'll have to calculate the dimension to center the door within the wall.

Marc
Marc Corney, Architect
Red Canoe Architecture, P. A.

Mac OS 10.15.7 (Catalina) //// Mac OS 14.5 (Sonoma)
Processor: 3.6 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 //// Apple M2 Max
Memory: 48 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 //// 32 GB
Graphics: Radeon Pro 580X 8GB //// 12C CPU, 30C GPU
ArchiCAD 25 (5010 USA Full) //// ArchiCAD 27 (4030 USA Full)
Ted Taylor
Contributor
Does this help?
It sure does. Thank you.

I doubt I would have ever figured that out, since using those parameters in that way are so alien to how they are normally used. I guess I should have gotten a clue in that the frame has no option for size, but I missed that too. So what happens if I want to place pocket door in brick veneer wall? Or change frame dimension?

Thanks again!
Ted Taylor
Atlanta, GA , USA
iMac (Retina 5K, 27", Late 2015)
3.3 GHz Intel Core i5 32GB
AMD Radeon R9 M395 2GB
OS10.14.2,
Latest Archicad 22
Ted Taylor
Contributor
I just found that you can change the frame width under the trim tab.

"Trim thickness at frame"

It is almost logical.
Ted Taylor
Atlanta, GA , USA
iMac (Retina 5K, 27", Late 2015)
3.3 GHz Intel Core i5 32GB
AMD Radeon R9 M395 2GB
OS10.14.2,
Latest Archicad 22