DOOR & WINDOW ELEVATIONS

This command creates door and window elevation blocks. The elevation size and type can be specified by either selecting doors and windows from within an existing plan or by selecting them from a dialog.

User configurable options:

• When using a plan to specify size and type: whether you place the plan above or below the elevation
• Door elevation options
  • Whether to insert grids in doors w/ glass & grid style to use
  • Color & lineweight for inside frame
  • Color & lineweight for outside frame
  • Color & lineweight for raised panels
  • Color & lineweight for trim lines
  • Bifold, bipass, & pocket doors
    • Whether to draw trim lines
    • Thickness for trim lines
    • Door frame thickness
    • Distance to raised panels
  • Overhead garage doors
    • Whether to draw trim lines
    • Thickness for trim lines
    • Distance to draw frame and trim below door
    • Distance garage door is below finished floor
    • Whether to draw door solid or segmented
  • Standard swing & Patio doors
    • Whether to draw trim lines
    • Thickness for trim lines
    • Distance to draw frame below finished floor
    • Frame thickness
    • Half lite doors
      • Glass distance from top of door
      • Glass distance from side of door
      • Glass distance from bottom of door
    • Full lite doors
      • Glass distance from top of door
      • Glass distance from side of door
      • Glass distance from bottom of door
    • Patio doors
      • Glass distance from top of door
      • Glass distance from side of door
      • Glass distance from bottom of door
• Window elevation options
  • Whether to insert windows with grids & grid style to use
  • Residential windows
    • Default head height
    • Frame thickness
    • Glazing line thickness
    • Whether to draw trim
    • Trim thickness
    • Color and lineweight for inside frame
    • Color and lineweight for outside frame
    • Color and lineweight for grids & glass lines
    • Color and lineweight for trim lines
  • Sliding glass doors
    • Frame thickness
    • Door distance to glass (top & sides)
    • Door distance to glass (bottom)
    • Glazing line thickness
    • Whether to draw trim
    • Trim thickness
    • Distance to extend trim below finished floor
  • Commercial windows
    • Default header height
    • Whether to draw glass stop line
    • Thickness for glass stop line
    • Color and lineweight for glass stop line

See Door Elevations or Window Elevations in the Elevation Cmds section of the APS Configuration Utility. 

Layers:

• If you are using "No Layer Control" the doors & windows will be inserted on whatever layer is current. See the Layer Control section of the APS Configuration Utility.

• The default layer type for all swing & pocket, bifold, bipass, overhead, patio, and sliding glass doors is "Door Elevations" and the default layer type for all commercial and residential windows is "Window Elevations". 
  • If you are using "Direct Layer Assignment" the layer names are assigned to these layer types in the Layer assignments portion of the Layer Control section of the APS-CONFIG command.
  • If you are using "Layer Schemes" the layer names are assigned to these layer types in the Assigning Layer Names to Layer Types portion of the SCHEMEDIT command.

  The layer types for this command can be changed in the Assigning Layer Types to Commands portion of the Layer Control section of the APS-CONFIG command.  

Known limitations:

• When using a plan to specify door/window size and type
  • The plan must be inserted in the drawing exploded. The plan cannot be a block or XREF. You must be able to select each door or window block individually.
  • The door and window blocks in the drawing must be from one of the APS-2008 door and window commands.

• Submit a limitation not listed.

Alternate uses:

• None reported. If you have an alternate use for this command submit it here.

SAMPLE DWELEV COMMAND SYNTAX:

With this command there are two ways to select the size and type of door and window elevations. The first is to select the door or window in plan and the second is to select it from a menu dialog. 

	Select door/window from plan
	Select door/window from menu dialog

The command initially assumes that you want to select your doors and windows from a floor plan and that you have your plan already lined up with your rough elevation as shown in the top image above. If you would just like to select your door or window from the menu dialog (like immediately above) press <Enter> or <Space> and a dialog will allow you to choose the type of door or window you would like. See Select door/window from menu dialog below.

 

[Select door/window from plan]

 There are a couple of requirements when using this method:

• You must have your floor plan lined up w/ your rough elevation similar to the example above. The plan can be either above or below the elevation but must match the setting in the Elevation Cmds section of the APS Configuration Utility. The plan and elevation can be at any angle see Drawing elevations around a plan in the Tips & Tricks area.
• The door and window blocks in the plan are from one of the APS-2008 door and window commands and the plan is not a block or XREF (the door and window blocks cannot be nested inside a block or XREF).

To help you understand fully how much time this command can save you we will show you an example with several doors and windows. 

Command:
Command: DW
Command: DWELEV

Select Window/Door in plan or <Enter> to specify:

Select the first door or window block in the plan that you would like to elevate.

 

Select finish floor line or <Enter> to manually select insertion point:

To really speed things up you may select a line or pline that represents the finished floor line and let the command find the insertion points of your doors and windows for you. (The default header height for window is set in the Window Elevations portion of the Elevation Cmds section of the APS Configuration Utility, the bottom of the door is always set to the finish floor height.) If you don't have a finished floor line you may also find the insertion point yourself. Press <Enter> or <Space> and you will be prompted for the insertion points for each of the doors and windows.

For this example we will select a line that represents the finished floor height.

 

--the window elevation block is inserted--

 

 

Select Window/Door in plan:

This is when it really starts to get fast. Just start selecting doors and windows.

--the door elevation block is inserted--

 

Select Window/Door in plan:

Select the next door or window.

--the window elevation block is inserted--

 

Select Window/Door in plan:

Select the next door or window. In this case it is a door that has some style options to choose from so you would see the following dialog:

The difference between exterior and interior doors is simply whether or not the trim is drawn below finished floor. Trim can be drawn below finished floor so that the trim will be drawn down to the bottom of the siding. (The distance that the trim goes below the finished floor is set in the Door Elevations portion of the APS Configuration Utility). Interior doors will not have trim below the finished floor.

We are drawing exterior doors and would like the trim to go down to the siding line so we will check "Exterior".

Next select the door style that you would like. For this example we will select the door w/ the half-lite.

 

--the door elevation block is inserted--

 

Select Window/Door in plan:

Select the next door or window.

--the window elevation block is inserted--

 

Select Window/Door in plan:

Select the next door or window.

--the window elevation block is inserted--

Select Window/Door in plan:

When you are through press <Enter> or <Space> to quit.

[End - Select door/window from plan]

 

[Select door/window from menu dialog]

Command:
Command: DW
Command: DWELEV

Select Window/Door in plan or <Enter> to specify:

For this method we do not have a door or window in plan so we will press <Enter> or <Space> and the following dialog will appear:

Select the door or window type that you would like to insert. Each has its own dialog for entering the size of the door or window you would like. While each of the doors & windows has a unique way of getting it's size information once the size has been selected they all insert similarly. The doors all use the bottom left corner for the insertion point and the windows all use the top left corner. For this example we will assume you selected a residential window.

The following dialog appears:

Select the window type and size you want. You may either use the preset size buttons or enter a custom size in the boxes above.

 

Insertion point:

Select the insertion point for the window. The insertion base point for the windows is the top left corner of the window frame (not the trim). The intersection snap is added to your running object snaps if not already being used.

 

Rotation angle <0.0000>:

Select or enter the rotation angle for the window. The default is 0.0 so you usually can just press <Enter> or <Space>.

 

--the window is inserted--

[End - Select door/window from menu dialog]

Solutions to common questions and problems with this command

Related Commands

WGRID  Command that will add/remove grids in the glass of a door or window.

EXP2LAYR  Command to explode blocks and have all the entities in the block changed to the layer that the block was on. While there are drawbacks to exploding the blocks (the WGRID command above will no longer work) there are times when the doors and/or windows must be modified. This command will allow you to explode the block without all of the door and window objects going to the "0" layer.