Garage door placement.

[lburgess6624]

Im trying to put in a garage door 16 ft wide by 14 ft tall in a post frame opening. i have made the rough opening 1" narrower than the door width and 1/2" shorter than the door height. i want to put the door on the inside of the framing layer. i cannot figure out how to offset the door

[DavidJPotter]

You would be better served to use the software as it was programmed to be used as opposed to what it sounds like you want it to do. You might take a long, careful look at the door dialog box to see what adjustments can be made to achieve your desired result. The ONLY controls that exist for a door or window object will be found its its dialog box and NOWHERE else..

 

DJP

 

 

[glennw]

Have a play with the settings on the Jamb panel in the door dbx.

[rlackore]

AFAIK, Chief can't model an overhead sectional door correctly OOB. There is no setting in the door dialog box that will approximate the actual condition of a garage door installation. I would be happy to be wrong, if someone can show us how (work-arounds not included).

[roberttaylorr]

I’ve run into similar issues with post frame openings before. The jamb settings usually help, but garage doors can still be tricky to align properly inside the framing layer. We recently handled a few custom garage door installation projects in Las Vegas, NV, and accurate offset placement made a huge difference in the final fit and operation.

[Joe_Carrick]

Chief has never handled track mounted garage doors correctly.  The plan view has always been for the solid one piece door with the dooor in the closed position between the Jambs, not behing them.  

 

I sent in a suggestion about this about 4-5 years ago but I don't recall any response.  I fake it by using

• a Doorway smaller that the actual garage  door
• Invisible no-room definition wall inside the exterior wall
• then place the garage door in that invisible wall

IOW the opening in the exterior wall is what's going to be built and the garage door is inserted in the invisible wall which is inside the garage.  The tracks will then be basically inside the garage, not within the opening in the exterior wall.  For rollup doors I use the same method.