Double door

[billynutts]

Anybody know how to swing the panels of a double door independantly?

[campbell.58097]

Anybody know how to swing the panels of a double door independantly?

I have not tried this but an idea that comes to mind would be to create a framed opening and then place two frameless doors and place the swings how you would like them. That way when you adjust the display rep to open the doors they should swing opposit. To get every thing to move together you could group them or create an anchor on the wall. This is an interesting question I might give this a try.

[billynutts]

Cambell thanks for the reply. ACA has a built-in double door which has opposite swings just not one which can show two different swings on the same side. The reason we doo this is to show the dominant side or a fixed side of a double door. Thanks.

[dzatto]

I have not tried this but an idea that comes to mind would be to create a framed opening and then place two frameless doors and place the swings how you would like them. That way when you adjust the display rep to open the doors they should swing opposit. To get every thing to move together you could group them or create an anchor on the wall. This is an interesting question I might give this a try.

Yeah, that's the way to do it. Use a door/window assembly and 2 frameless doors. Then you can anchor them to the assembly. When you insert it, it will anchor to the wall just like a normal door / window would.

[david_peterson]

Are you looking more for like double doors that swing in different directions (I'm thinking like waiter/resturant/buter doors). Or do you just want one to be shown open 90 degrees and one to show open 45 or something like that. I thought that ACA came with a "butler" style door, but I guess I can't seem to find it. Maybe I saw that on the Adesk website. Hmmm.

[billynutts]

I'll try the dorr/window assembly route. Dave they do have a butler type of door its in the Design Imperial catelog. Thanks guys.

[dkoch]

Are you looking more for like double doors that swing in different directions (I'm thinking like waiter/resturant/buter doors). Or do you just want one to be shown open 90 degrees and one to show open 45 or something like that. I thought that ACA came with a "butler" style door, but I guess I can't seem to find it. Maybe I saw that on the Adesk website. Hmmm.

Create a style that has a door type (Design Rules tab) of Single-Dhung or Double-Dhung for a double-acting door. [Use Communicating type when you have a single door frame with two door leaves, swinging in opposite directions and hinged on the same side. Frequently used in hotels/motels to allow two rooms rented by the same group of people to be open to each other without going into the main corridor.]

[billynutts]

More like french patio doors where one is fixed and one is not or one is the dominant panel.

[dkoch]

More like french patio doors where one is fixed and one is not or one is the dominant panel.

You will either need to add custom blocks to a Double type Door, which may give strange results when used for a door of a different width than that for which the block was drawn, or to set up a Door/Window Assembly, with a zero-width mullion between two cells for two Single type Doors. That may present scheduling challenges, unless you only use the D/WA and its included doors for graphic purposes and pop in a non-plotting double door in the same spot for scheduling purposes.