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Displaying Doors

To place a library door in a doorway 5. Continue clicking other doorways as
needed.
1. Go to plan view or any 3D view.
2. Open the Library Browser. Creating Your Own Doors
3. Browse or search to find a custom door You can create custom doors and doorways
style that suits your needs.
and save them in your own library for use in
4. Select the door in the Library Browser, future plans. See “Custom Symbols” on page
then click on the doorway to place the 951.
selected door within it. If a door already
exists, it is replaced.

Displaying Doors

The display of doors, door labels, • Is located between rooms with different
opening indicators, header lines, and floor heights. See “Stepped Floor and
casing is controlled in the Layer Display Ceiling Platforms” on page 428.
Options dialog. See “Layer Display Options
Dialog” on page 190.

Doors can only be placed in walls, so if a
wall’s layer is turned off, any doors placed in
that wall will not display, either. See
“Displaying Walls” on page 361.
If the “Doors” layer is turned off, doors and
their casing do not display but openings in
the walls where they are located are visible.
Threshold
In Plan Views Line

A door’s jamb, casing, and swing are all Doorways display dashed lines that represent
represented in plan view. If a door is the wall surface between the doorway and
recessed, the affected wall layers will adjust the ceiling. Other types of doors do not
to accommodate the casing. display these wall surface lines, however,

A threshold line will display across a door you can specify that any door display them or
opening in plan view when the door: not in its specification dialog. See “Options
Panel” on page 547.
• Is located in an exterior wall. See “Exte-
rior and Interior Walls” on page 349. If an exterior door to a Garage room on Floor
• Opens to an exterior room such as a 1 extends into a Garage stem wall or curb on
Garage or Deck. See “Room Types and Floor 0, its location will be indicated on
Functions” on page 414. Floor 0. You can control the display of this

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