How to create a Coiling Door with nested Door in ACA?

How to create a Coiling Door with nested Door in ACA?

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How to create a Coiling Door with nested Door in ACA?

jtm2020hyo
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(1) is there any way to create this class of door?

 

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... basically the Coiling Door should work as a Wall but probably does not the correct way.

 

 

 

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jtm2020hyo
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(2) ... And with the same method, create a Door with nested dog door:

 

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(3) ... or better, a Coiling Door with Nested Door with Nested Dog Door.

 

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@jtm2020hyo 

(1) It depends on what you are expecting to get out of what you place in the drawing.  Are you expecting to be able to schedule both the coiling Door and the embedded person Door separately?  Or to be able to dynamically change the size and/or position of the person Door, and somehow have that show in the Door Schedule?

 

If I had to do this, and had to have show this in plan, elevation and 3D (rendering??), I would probably have a good cry (privately, I have to protect my reputation), and then decide that I could live with the entire assembly as one Door in the schedule.  I would then waste an inordinate amount of time creating the custom display blocks needed to properly represent this in plan, elevation and 3D.  If there were multiple instances of differing sizes (for both overall coiling Door and the person Door), I might try to see if I could accommodate that in a single Door Style, but would most likely give up and create separate styles for each unique condition and use static display blocks to show each condition.

 

(2)  That is a Door/Window Assembly, as far as I am concerned.  I would use a frameless Door Style as an infill for the person Door.  If I were feeling particularly playfull, I might create a custom Door Style (again, frameless) with display blocks to show the dog Door.

 

(3)  Just say, "No."  😉

 

Fortunately, that sort of thing has never come up on a project for which I would have had to create the content (or, at the least, no one wanted it all modeled up as an AEC object in full 3D).


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jtm2020hyo
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In Wall Object and Structural Object there exists the option to add a nested object as their similars, I was thinking that maybe exist a way to do the same modifications with Doors, similar to Design Rules.

 

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... Thanks any way

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David_W_Koch
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Structural Members offer that level of customization.  Custom Display blocks are the best you can do for Doors.  If you do not need fully parametric items, that can work.


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