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Floor slope With A door to fit the slope

L.crause — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 17:37:04 GMT

Hi does anyone know how I can solve this problem? The floor of the building is sloping 1.67 degrees downwards, when I place a door on a wall the door is set to be straight on the wall. How do I get the door to also slope the same slope as the floor to match? See the image attached showing the slope as well as the point cloud in the back and then my straight door that needs to be changed so it has the same slope as the floor. Please Help

Re: Floor slope With A door to fit the slope

RDAOU — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 17:43:21 GMT

@L.crause

I have never seen a sloped door ever!!! However, edit the door family and modify it to cut the wall at an angle and the door leaf to be trapezoidal instead of rectangular

Re: Floor slope With A door to fit the slope

L.crause — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 17:47:35 GMT

Thanks, I will give it a try, this is one messed-up skew house in the Netherlands. Walls and floor fell to the front of the house and that caused the door frames to also have an angle. 😫

Re: Floor slope With A door to fit the slope

syman2000 — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 17:59:14 GMT

Normally I would add reference plane and parameter to indicate the void offset. Remove the opening and replace it with void.

Now your door will have extended cut

If you want to match to slope floor, I would extend the base to the extension

Add void to the base and cut the door panel and the trims

When you load into the project, the door base will reflect the same angle as your floor.

Re: Floor slope With A door to fit the slope

lucdoucet_msdl — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 18:55:46 GMT

@L.crause

Your initial challenge to modeling an existing door to match the point cloud survey may be secondary to the additional challenges for walls, floors, and other sloped or deformed structures in your building.

Rather that adapt parametric families to these challenging conditions, I would consider whether it is acceptable to model in place existing conditions rather than creating a overly complexe parametric families that will warp to fit. This may be informed by your role and the extent of the work to be required.

For example, if the building will be gutted, and the replacement constructions will be orthogonal, why bother with a warped parametric door. If modifications are to be minor and/or the new construction required to match the existing deformation, those will help decide to invest in the time and effort the create warped parametric doors, walls, beams, etc.

This said, a quick way to simulate a warped door and frame is with an embedded curtain wall family which can allow you to adjust to uneven deformations of a trapezoïd. Although it does seem that the frames were deformed as parallelograms which is probably simpler to modify a standard door family as @syman2000 suggests.

I've recently used this technique for a sloped walkway where the curtain panels needed to stay perpendicular to a sloped floor. The idea is:

Place a curtain wall to automatically cut the compound wall;
Edit the wall profil to rotate the top and bottom to the desired angle. These angles may even be different in the case of a trapezoïd;
Edit the curtain grid's vertical angle if the jambs are also inclined;

The down side is that if you want a custom curtain panel (ie include swing lines), it will have to be an adaptive curtain panel.

Quick sketch below with single and double doors in orange.

Hope this helps,

-luc