Set mimimum width for a double door?

[ACADuser]

Working on a commercial clinic & need 48" doors to be single, not double.

Where is that default setting for double doors at?

 

Thanks

 

[BenPalmer]

Edit>Default Settings>Doors>Interior and/or Exterior Doors>Options> select 'Single Door Only' (vs Calculate from Width)

[ericepv]

Edit / Default Settings / Doors / Interior Door -  Select edit then in the 'General' tab of the DBX, specify the width and then go to the 'Options' tab and select 'Single Door Only'.

[ACADuser]

That is what I was doing but is there no way to set the max single door width so Chief does that calc for me??

 

[BenPalmer]

4 minutes ago, ACADuser said:

... is there no way to set the max single door width so Chief does that calc for me??

 

No, we can not set the max single door width.  Sounds like a feature request. 

[TeaTime]

10 minutes ago, ACADuser said:

That is what I was doing but is there no way to set the max single door width so Chief does that calc for me??

 

Cabinets have a very similar function that converts their "Auto Right/Left" doors into doubles when they hit a threshold, but that value is set in General Cabinet Defaults.

Doors don't have a General Default. I'm pretty sure it's hard coded based on the doors. I think most are 4' but Bi-folds are less, around 3'.

Sure would be nice to be able to specify it in the different door type defaults, though.

[robdyck]

From Help:

Note: The Calculate From Width defaults are not editable.

• Select Calculate From Width to use the program defaults. Hinged and pocket doors default to Single Door when less than four feet (1200 mm) wide; bifold doors do so when less than three feet (900 mm) wide. If the width is greater than this, Double Door is the default.

[Joe_Carrick]

 

So, in the door dbx, options panel - select "Single Door".  

As an alternative in the defaults you can select "Single Door" to prevent the automatic "Calculate from Width".

 

It would be nice if there was a setting for what dimension should be used for "Calculate from Width" instead of the hard coded 48"

[ACADuser]

Unfortunately most of the doors were already placed as 42" door & I had to manually change to 48" & force to single.

Only 68 of the doors were affected.

 

It would be nice to have access to that variable.

 

Thanks folks.

[Joe_Carrick]

Alan,  

The best way of handling this would to select one of the 42" doors - then select same and set the selection criteria - the open the dbx of the doors that were found and make the change to Single 48".

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Set those parameters in the Defaults prior to placing the doors in the plan.

[ACADuser]

In the future I'll set the defaults but this time we planned on 42" door but the VA decided to use 48" so I had to adjust them in the plan after they were installed.

The issue I have with that is I put the hinge side close to the side wall & when I change to 48" it expands from the center.

Then I have to move all the doors away from the side wall bu 3". PITA

 

Thanks for the tips.