Door Styles

• New Door style
• Edit Doors
• Door Style Components
• Door Style from blocks

The door style defines the features of doors. You can define the following parameters in each door style: Name, Attributes, Aperture type, Shape and Custom blocks.

Door styles are defined by different components that can be added or deleted at any time: Door Frame, Door Stop and Leaf.

After running the vaDoorStyles command, the door Style Manager dialog box will appear. All door styles are created and edited from this dialog.

New door style:

You can create new styles and duplicate existing ones from the different options in the door Style Manager.

Door styles can be created as regular door styles, or as Grasshopper styles (styles driven by a Grasshopper definition).

When clicking on the New Style... button, select one of the two options available, which will open the corresponding new style wizard:

• Door style: follow the steps of the wizard to define the new door style parameters:
  • Name
  • Opening type
  • Opening profile
  • Standard size
  • Frame component parameters
  • Stop component parameters
  • Leaf component parameters
  • Custom blocks
• Grasshopper style: follow the steps of the wizard to create a new style from a Grasshopper definition:
  • Grasshopper definition
  • Global values configuration
  • Geometry
  • Parameters

Delete a door style:

You can delete door styles from the door Style Manager dialog box. You can only delete those styles that are not being used by any existing door in the model, and that are not the last style inserted in the model.

Edit a door style:

Select the door style or a door component item from the top left panel and edit their different parameters from the tabs that appear in the right panel.

Add a new door component:

• Context menu: right-click on the door style name to open the context menu and select New > "Component item".
• New icon : select the door style and click on the New icon from the dialog toolbar. Select "Component item".

Delete components: use the context menu (right-click on the component you wish to delete and select Delete) or the Delete button .

Attributes

Attributes define the features of each door style and its components for display and print purposes. The valid attributes are:

• General: Layer, Visibility and Material
• Projection: Color, Linetype, Line print width and Line print color
• Section: Color, Linetype, Line print width, Line print color, Pattern, Pattern scale, Pattern angle and Pattern color

Type

Aperture Type: VisualARQ can create door styles with two types of aperture:

• Sliding: door that runs or slides on a rail or slot.
• Swing: door that is open to one side on hinges.

Sliding leaves: option to have the leaves of sliding doors aligned. This option is only enabled for doors with sliding aperture type.

Geometry

The door shape, (or rough opening) is defined by a profile. VisualARQ offers a library with predefined parametric profiles: Rectangular, Circular, 90° Arc, Gothic, etc.

Customized shape profiles can also be used to define Doors.

To add a customized profile, draw a closed and flat curve and convert it into a profile using the vaProfileFromCurve command , or from the Profile Manager

Once the custom profile has been created, it will appear within the list of profiles.

The resulting profile is not parametric, so it can only be used with the dimensions and proportions of the original drawing.

Sizes

Each door style has a list of predefined sizes, that can be added, deleted and edited here.

• Add a new size: click on the New button. A new size item will appear in the list. Define its name directly on the list, and edit its dimensions below.
• Delete a size: select the size from the list and click on the Delete button.
• Edit a size: select the size to edit from the list and change its name directly on the list or edit its dimensions below.

The parameters corresponding to the sizes of a door will depend on the type of profile selected.

The sizes can also be specified at any time when inserting the door from the insert dialog box by choosing the Sizes > Other option in the Profile section of this box.

Blocks

Options to create the door Style from blocks

Host

Doors can be inserted in walls, curtain walls, slabs and roofs. Select the valid host type for each door style. The other hosts won't be detected when inserting doors of this style in the model.

Parameters

In this tab you can create custom parameters by style and assign values by style.

These values can be overwritten by object, from the Parameters section , in the Rhino Properties panel .

Door components

Frame

The door styles can only have one frame component.

Geometry

• Width and Depth: dimensions of the frame profile.
• Adjust depth to wall thickness : when this option is enabled, the frame depth takes the host object thickness. When the door is not anchored to any object, the frame depth takes a default value of 200 mm.

Stop

The door styles can have one doorstop component.

Geometry

• Width and Depth: dimensions of the stop profile.

Leaves

The door styles can have one or more leaves.

Geometry

Options

• Invert opening side: option to change the leaf opening side.
• Fixed leaf: when this option is enabled, the leaf will ignore any aperture and max aperture values assigned to the door object.

Sizes

Leaf width options:

• Auto: the leaf distributes its width equally with the remaining space left by the other leaves.
• Size (%): leaf size defined as a percentage of the total width of the door.
• Width: fixed leaf width dimension.

• Thickness: thickness or depth of the leaf. This value doesn't depend on the leaf size options.

Handle

The handle component is a nested component of door leaves. Door leaves can have a handle on each side.

Geometry

Type

• Type: there are three handle types available:
  • Lever
  • Knob
  • Embedded
• Escutcheon: it's the piece that joins the handle to the leaf. It can be of 3 different shapes, whose dimensions can't be edited:
  • Rectangle
  • Circle
  • Square
• Orientation: vertical or horizontal. This parameter is only appreciable with rectangular escutcheons.

Position

• Side: determines in which side of the leaf the handle will be located. When a new handle component is added to the same leaf, it is automatically located at the opposite side.
• Vertical alignment: position of the handle (measured from its central external point) in relation to the leaf height. There are three options available:
  • Top: this option is measured from the interior edge of the door frame.
  • Middle
  • Bottom
• Vertical offset: the handle moves in relation to its vertical alignment.
• Horizontal alignment: position of the handle (measured from its central external point) in relation to the leaf width. There are two options available:
  • Edge: this option is measured from the interior edge of the door frame, and the edge is determined by the opening side of the leaf.
  • Middle
• Horizontal offset: the handle moves in relation to its horizontal alignment

Glass

Door leaves can have a glass. When a new door leaf is created, it doesn't contain a glass. To add a glass to a door leaf, select the Leaf component on the left side of the dialog box, right-click to open the context menu, and select New > Glass.

Glasses can have two different components:

1. Frame: Frame that holds the glass in a door leaf. The glass frame properties are the Width and Thickness, which is the same as the leaf thickness and can be edited selecting the leaf component. The frame can be removed from the glass.
2. Muntins: The rigid supporting strips between adjacent glass panes. The muntins properties are the amount of muntins that divide a glass panel and their width.

Custom blocks

The door styles can be created with 2D and 3D blocks that define their representation in the plan and model views, respectively.
To create a custom door style, assign a profile (which defines the shape of the rough opening on the wall), a 2D block (which defines the plan representation) and a 3D block (which defines the model representation).

Steps:

• Create a custom profile: Draw a closed and flat curve and convert it into a profile using the vaProfileFromCurve command .
  Once the custom profile has been created, it will appear at the end of the list of the preset parametric profiles library.
  The resulting profile is not parametric, so it can only be used with the dimensions and proportions of the original drawing.
• Create the 2D and 3D blocks: Create the 3D model and draw the 2D representation from it. Then, create two blocks from them with the Block command (Edit menu > Blocks > Create Block Definition).
• Create the new Door style: Once you have created the profile and the 2D/3D blocks, press the New style... button in the Style Manager dialog box. Use the wizard displayed to assign a custom profile to the style.

  Skip the steps where the door style parameters are defined by pressing the Next button until the custom block definition dialog box is displayed.
  Select the checkbox that enables the options to use custom blocks for the model and plan views in the Custom blocks dialog box. These checkboxes will be only enabled if there is a block created in the document. Once they have been enabled, select the 3D and 2D blocks in the drop-down menu to define the door style representation in those views.

Before creating the blocks (2D/3D), make sure that the objects you wish to convert in VisualARQ openings are aligned with the universal X, Y and Z axes (WCS).
Once you have aligned the objects with the WCS, choose the lower center point of your geometry as the insertion point when creating the block.
This will guarantee that the orientation of the opening is correct.

When 3D and 2D blocks are used to define the representation of a custom style, the Sizes, Frame, Doorstop and Leaves parameters do not have an effect on the appearance of the style created. Custom styles are NOT parametric: their appearance (size, proportion, level of detail) depends on the block used to define them.

VisualARQ can also create hybrid door styles, replacing only the plan view (with a 2D block) and using the model view of a parametric style or vice versa.
The representation that does not use a block must be defined with style parameters (Sizes, Frame, Doorstop and Leaves), as in any standard door style.