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Door positioning snaps

Paul King
Advisor
In any given project, doors typically end up being in consistent positions with respect to corners or centres of walls.
It would thus be very useful/save a lot of redundant typing if these could be recorded and act as snap points during door placement - for example, if doors near corners are mostly always offset 150mm from corner, it is just too painful to be eternally typing this offset manually every time you place a door in a 200 room project!

There should be a range of recorded snap points that appear along wall during placement, say 5 or 10, to cover the range of typical wall / corner/ door placement relationships.

The whole idea with ArchiCAD should be to notice patterns in how designers work, and then intelligently reduce the number of steps required to achieve these patterns - quietly taking out the drudge work behind the scenes!
PAUL KING | https://www.prime.net.nz
ArchiCAD 8-27 | Twinmotion 2023
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Anonymous
Not applicable
Matthew wrote:
s2art wrote:
ejrolon wrote:
What's wrong with using the Distance parameter in the Control Box Palette?
See image. Distance works from end of wall element (on reference line) but not from adjoining wall.
You can set the special snap points to work to the nearest intersection rather than the end of the wall (or line or whatever).
I had forgotten that. Thank you.
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