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Special Doors

units containing doors can be treated as
either windows or doors for materials list and
Doorway
schedule generation. See “Make Mulled
Unit” on page 567.

Creating a Doorway
with a Railing

When a railing is specified as No Room Def,
it can be positioned within a Doorway .

To open a railing across an entire section,
resize the doorway’s Width so that it is
greater than the length of the railing in the
Door Specification dialog. The opening
resizes to the maximum width possible for
that space. See “General Panel” on page 545.
To add a gate, specify the doorway’s Door
Type as a Door, then choose an appropriate
gate as the Door Style. A selection of gates is
available in the Fences & Railings library
folder. See “Placing Library Objects” on
page 939. To create a doorway with railing

Recessed Doors 1. Place a Doorway at the desired loca-
tion in your plan.
A door placed in a brick or stone wall is often
recessed into the wall’s exterior. In the 2. Select Build> Railing and Deck>
illustration below, the door to the right is Straight Railing , then click and
recessed, so the brick wraps the opening. The drag to draw a railing parallel to the wall
door on the left is not recessed, so the casing with the doorway.
is outside the brick.
3. Select the railing, then use the Resize
You can specify a door as recessed in the edit handles to adjust the length of the
Door Specification dialog. See “Options railing as needed. See “Using the Edit
Panel” on page 547. Handles” on page 218.
4. With the railing selected, click the Open
Blocked Doors and Windows
Object edit button.
Combinations of doors and windows can be
blocked. Blocked units are mulled together 5. On the GENERAL panel of the Railing
and can be copied together as a unit. Blocked Specification dialog, check No Room

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