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Posted by Nauthiz at Sep 11, 2019, 11:25:37 AM
confused   3D modeling of door - a couple of questions
So, long story short: three weeks ago I found this wonderful software, I made my future apartment, got a crick in my neck, made my current apartment, went on a binge shopping for free 3D models... And then I discovered you can have opening doors and drawers! I was no longer satisfied. I installed Blender for the first time in my life.

After a lot of trial and error I managed to model a quite nice and unnecessarily detailed door. It works properly, but I have a couple of minor issues with it:

- the door doesn't draw a door symbol in the 2D plan. Is there something special I should add to the OBJ file to achieve that?

- this particular door has a doorframe thicker than the wall. But the default behavior is to squish the whole object to the wall thickness. How to block that? I noticed that some doors from the catalog stay in their original size without adjusting.

- the doorleaf is connected to one side of the doorframe. In order to have the doorframe centered on the wall I added a dummy part which compensates for the doorleaf and handle thickness on the other side. So now I after I put the door into the plan, I have to edit it and change the size to the original and change the dummy to be invisible.

So everything works, but I'm surely missing something...

Posted by Puybaret at Sep 14, 2019, 6:43:09 PM
Re: 3D modeling of door - a couple of questions
Please read this thread.
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Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator