How To Draw Sliding Door In Autocad

@gotphish001 wrote:
You aren't crazy. I played around with it for a while and I couldn't figure out how to reverse it. I assume it's showing the arrow direction in the properties which is actually opposite as you said how it should be. It's greyed out in properties and I'm unsure how to get into that variable to alter it. You might need to add a new block as you said. @David_W._Koch is there an easy fix for this?

@gotphish001

I'm not sure that you and @ted.evans are talking about the same things. If you are talking about the Swing component of the Door, which, for a Sliding Door, generates an arrow indicating Door Panel direction of movement in the Elevation, that appears to be consistent with the elevation and plan graphics. I thought that Mr. Evans was referring to the value of the Swing Direction automatic property, which will state Left or Right.

For the sliding door in his file, where the interior panel is on the right side when close, and it slides to the left when opening, that property displays a value of Left. I am not certain that I disagree with that; for a swing door, a left hand door has the latch at the right side, just like this door. But since almost all of the work I have done has been commercial/institutional, not residential, and the sliding doors I have used did not use the left/left-reverse/right/right-reverse nomenclature, I am willing to defer to others on this issue. Instead, moving and fixed panels were designated by O and X, respectively, making his door and X-O. In an admittedly very brief attempt to find references to left/right swing for sliding doors on the internet, I was not able to find much on sliding door designation (other than the O and X method). We never call out handing in our door schedules, anyway; we leave it to the subcontractor to work it out from the plan representation. The only time there is a potential issue is for a locking door where it is not readily apparent which side should require a key. Ideally, we would add a note in the comments column on the schedule specifying from which room the lock is to apply; sometimes that is not done, and either the subcontractor asks the question in the submittal (thank you) or the reviewer has to pay attention to the subcontractor's assumption and make certain it is correct.

There is a Swing Direction - Reverse automatic property that basically swaps Left for Right and Right for Left from the Swing Direction property. That is there because in some areas, the terminology is reversed from what is common in the United States. But that may not be usable if Mr. Evans agrees with the values for Swing Direction for swing doors. You could use a formula property to test if a Door was a sliding door or not, and pass through the Swing Direction - Reverse or Swing Direction value accordingly, to get one property and one column in the schedule. That may be worth the effort. (The fact that neither property includes "Reverse Bevel" for doors that swing outward - toward the locking side - means that I would need another method if I had to include handing in a schedule.)

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