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How to edit the width of the casing around doors?
When the width of a door is set to 32", the width of the door's swing in the Aerial View is actually only about 29". The door model consists of a swing and a frame, and the swing appears to be 90% the width of the model, leaving 5% of frame on either side to act as sort-of door jambs.
This means in order to get a specific swing the user has to manually pad the width of the door, which is inconvenient and throws off the measurements between the door and neighboring walls.
It also means the thickness of the jambs scales with the width of the door model, whereas in real life almost all manufactured jambs have the same standard thickness regardless of the width of the door
This is a problem when trying to plan out a room accurately, especially when there is very little tolerance between the swing of the door and an obstacle in the room.
Is there a way to modify just the frame of the door model? Or does anyone have a frame-less door model handy?
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Re: How to edit the width of the casing around doors?
You can't change the dimensions of only part of a model. Although you can create models with Sweet Home 3D it is not designed for this. The options are limited. You will have to either create your own model or split the model and change the part(s), then combine again. Splitting into parts can be done by material name. Make all materials invisible except the part you want to isolate. When you export only the visible part(s) will be exported. Restore the orginal model and do the same for other parts. Now you can import each part and adjust the dimensions for each part.
For the door you mentioned this will be very difficult to do because the frame will resize as a complete frame, not the tickness of the sides and top. Maybe the easiest way for your problem is to make the frame invisible and export the rest. Import and during import check "Door or window". You now have a frameless door. You can adjust the width and height as you want.
If you stil want a frame but with your own size you can create that with three boxes in the exact dimensions you want. You can even place the resized door in that new frame and export everything together. Import again with checking "Door or window".
If the door has deformations for opening you should be able to keep that with export/import if you only remove the frame. If the door was imported from a library it probably had sashes to display the opening curve. You will loose that because that is defined in the library, not in the model definition.
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