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Changing Door Swings

Door Specification dialog. See “General The default casing for interior and exterior
Panel” on page 545. doors is a basic rectangular stock profile.
You can specify a door’s casing profiles in
You can specify the materials for the two the Door Specification dialog, or you can
sides separately in the Door Specification choose to suppress casing altogether. See
dialog. See “Materials Panel” on page 559.
“Casing Panel” on page 549.
You can also specify different casing for the A separate molding profile can be specified
interior and exterior sides of exterior doors - for the lintel, or top horizontal molding. See
that is, doors placed in exterior walls or walls “Lintel Panel” on page 551.
defining a Garage or other exterior room
type. See “Room Types and Functions” on Interior and exterior door casing will display
page 414. in all views when the “Casings, Exterior”
and “Casings, Interior” layers are turned on.
Door Casing In plan view, only the vertical side casing
will be shown.
Doors typically feature casing, or trim, on
both sides of the wall opening. See Door Hardware
“Applying Moldings” on page 908.
• By default, interior doors use the same Handles, locks, and hinges can be assigned to
casing profile on both sides. You can a door in the Door Specification dialog. See
specify that both sides be edited sepa- “Hardware Panel” on page 555.
rately in the Door Specification dialog. In 3D views, handles and locks can also be
See “General Panel” on page 545. applied directly from the Library Browser.
• Exterior doors can have different casing Select a hardware item in the library, then
profiles on their interior and exterior click on the door to apply it to that side of the
sides. door. See “Inserted Objects” on page 940.

Changing Door Swings

Door swing direction and hinge The Change Opening/Hinge Side edit
side can be changed using the button is available for all doors except
Change Opening/Hinge Side and Change double doors and garage doors.
Swing Side edit buttons.
The Change Swing Side edit button is
Note: If the door is set to draw closed, the available for all doors except pocket doors.
swing as it appears in plan view has no effect
on the 3D view. See “Options Panel” on page Hinged Doors
547.
In addition to using the edit buttons, hinged
doors’ hinge side and swing direction can be

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