How to add doors and windows

Add a door

1. 1

   Open Door Styles

   Press D, or click Door in the left toolbar under Openings & circulation. The Door Styles gallery opens with tabs such as Common, Glass & French, Sliding & pocket and Folding.

   

2. 2

   Pick a style

   Click a style, or search, for example sliding or pocket. You can skip this: clicking a wall with no style picked places a standard door.

3. 3

   Click a wall

   Hover a wall to see the door and the wall lengths on each side of it. Click to place it. Each click places one door, then the editor goes back to Select. Press D again for the next one, or select a door and press Ctrl+D to duplicate it.

Add a window

1. 4

   Open Window Styles

   Press N, or click Window in the left toolbar. The Window Styles gallery has Rectangular, Round, Halfround, Arched, Triangular and Various styles.

2. 5

   Place it

   Pick a style, then click a wall. Each click places one window and returns to Select, so press N again for the next one.

Change size, swing, hinge and height

1. 6

   Select the door or window

   With Select (V), click it. Its panel opens on the right.

   

2. 7

   Set the size

   Type a Width and Height, or pick a common size from Door presets (Closet, Bathroom, Standard, Wide, Accessible, Double) or Window presets (Small, Standard, Wide, Picture, Bay). You can also type it on the plan: double-click the width or height figure in the blue label next to the door or window (or click it once the door or window is selected; on a phone, tap it), type the new value and press Enter. Esc cancels.

3. 8

   Flip the swing and hinge

   For a door, set Swing to In or Out, and Hinge to Left or Right. Or right-click the door and choose Flip swing or Mirror hinge.

   

4. 9

   Change the door type

   Under Door type pick Hinged, Sliding, Folding, Pocket, Double, Open / archway, Garage, Elevator or Revolving.

5. 10

   Set the window sill height

   For a window, type the Sill height: the distance from the floor to the bottom of the window. With the Sill Heights layer on, the sill figure on the plan can be typed into the same way as the width and height.

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   Move or centre it

   Drag it along the wall. Right-click and choose Center on wall to put it exactly in the middle.

7. 12

   Raise it off the floor

   Open Base offset and type a Base offset (from floor) to lift the whole door or window, for example a door onto a step.

8. 13

   Colour and frame

   For a window open Frame appearance and choose a Frame material (Standard (white), Metal, Wood) and a Frame color. For a door open Appearance and choose a Door color.

9. 14

   Swap the style

   Click Replace door or Replace window in the actions bar beside the selection and pick a new style. The size and colours you chose are kept.

Space windows evenly on a wall

1. 15

   Select the windows

   With Select (V), box-select two or more windows or pass-throughs on the same wall, or Ctrl-click each one. The Spacing on wall buttons appear in the selection panel on the right.

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   Equal spacing

   Click Equal spacing. The first and last window stay where they are and the ones between move so every clear gap, frame to frame, is the same. It needs three or more, and windows of different widths still get equal gaps.

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   Distribute across the wall

   Click Across wall to spread them over the whole wall, with the same gap to each wall end, measured from the inside of the corners. A door or window you did not select limits the stretch they spread over.

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   Check the gaps

   Green dimensions show every gap while the windows stay selected. Ctrl+Z puts all of them back in one step. Both actions are also in the right-click menu.

Open doors in 3D

1. 19

   Switch to 3D

   Click 3D in the top bar.

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   Open a door

   Click a door to select it, then click it again to open or close it. Open all doors in the right panel opens them all. In Walkthrough, doors open as you walk up to them.

   

Tips

• Doors and windows are exactly as deep as their wall, so they always fill the wall opening.
• For an opening with no door at all, like an arch or a kitchen hatch, use a pass-through (P). See Pass-throughs.
• Click the three dots in the actions bar beside a selected door or window and choose Full-length dimension to add the whole wall length as a dimension.
• In the Elevation view you can drag doors and windows along a wall face on, with live clearance dimensions. See Elevations.

Common problems

The door opens the wrong way

Select it and change Swing (In or Out) and Hinge (Left or Right), or right-click and use Flip swing and Mirror hinge.

I keep adding doors when I only wanted one

Each click places one opening and the editor switches back to Select. Press D or N again to add the next one.

The door will not go where I click

Doors and windows only go on walls. Hover right over the wall line until the preview appears, then click.

Equal spacing says there is not enough room or something is in between

Nothing moves when the windows cannot fit with equal gaps. Make the windows narrower or select fewer. If another door or window, or a wall joining this one, sits between them, select that opening too or space each side separately.

My window is too high or too low

Change Sill height in its panel. The window keeps its height and moves up or down.