Family Room Remodel - French Door With Transom

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QUESTION

I would similar to add a transom and side lites to a door in my plan.  How do I practise this?

ANSWER

In Chief Architect, a pick of entryways with transoms and side lites can exist found in the Doorways library category.  If yous do non detect a doorway that suits your needs in the library, y'all can create one yourself using the Door Tools.

To create a door with side lites

1. Select Build> Door> Hinged Door from the carte du jour, so click one time on the entry wall to identify a door at that location.

   

2. Click on the door to select it, and then click the Open Object edit button to open the Door Specification dialog.

   

   • On the General panel, specify the Width and Top that yous would similar your entry door to be.
   • On the Materials panel, specify the materials that you lot would similar this door to display.
   • Make whatever other changes that you lot would like, such as Door Way, and so click OK to shut the dialog and apply your changes.
3. Select Build> Door> Fixed Door  and click in one case on the wall of your entry to create a window at that location. This door will become a side lite.

   

   • If you are not able to place the door on the entry wall because the area is besides constricted, temporarily move the door to 1 side.
   • If in that location is still too little room, place the door in some other wall where there is enough room, make the door smaller, and then re-create and paste it onto the entry wall.
4. Click on this door to select it, then click the Open Object edit button.
5. On the General panel of the Door Specification dialog that opens:

   

   • Specify the Width and Height that you would similar the side lites to be.
   • Make sure that the window'sFloor to Pinnacle acme is the same every bit the door'south Height.
   • Make any other needed changes to the Panel Frame Widths , Lites, Materials or whatsoever other specification, and then click OK to shut the dialog and apply your changes.
6. Click on the window to select information technology, then click the Copy/Paste edit button. Click once on the other side of the door to place an exact re-create at that location.

   

7. Click on each fixed door and use the Move edit handle that displays at its middle to slide it until information technology bumps into the hinged door.
8. Click on one side low-cal to select it, hold down the Shift key on your keyboard, and click in one case on the door and the other side lite to select them as a group.
9. With the 3 objects group-selected, click the Make Mulled Unit edit button to create an architectural block - a single object made upward of multiple items.

   A quick mode to middle the blocked door and windows on the entry wall is to select this block, click the Center Object edit push, then click once on the outside of the entry wall.

   
   
10. To run into the results so far, select 3D> Create Perspective View> Full Camera from the carte, and click and drag a camera pointer in the direction of the entry door and side lites.

    

To create a transom

When a window is placed above one or more windows or doors to class a transom, it's helpful to have advantage of Principal Builder's window levels.

1. Select Build> Window> Window and click once on the wall of your entry to create a window at that location. This window will become the transom.
   • If at that place is too little room on the entry wall to place this window, place information technology  in another wall where there is enough room, edit it as described below, and so copy and paste it onto the entry wall.
2. Click on this window to select it, then click the Open Object edit push to open the Window Specification Dialog.

   

   • On the General panel, specify the Width, Height, and Floor to Top height that you would like the transom window to exist.
     • The exact size and tiptop aren't important at present, but we do want this window to exist high and narrow plenty that it volition fit between the ceiling of the room inside the door and the meridian edge of the door and side lites.
   • On the Options panel, specify the Vertical Stacking as 1.
   • Click OK to close the dialog and apply your changes.
3. In floor plan view, notice that the lines forming the transom window are pale gray in color and that this window does not display a size label. These are some of the effects of placing this window on a non-default level.
4. If you lot created the transom window on a wall other than the entry wall, click on it to select it, so click the Copy/Paste edit button.

   

   • Click one time on the entry wall to identify an exact re-create at that location.
   • With the transom window still selected, click the Center Object edit button, and so click once on the outside of the entry wall.
5. Select 3D> Create Orthographic View> Cross Department/Superlative from the carte du jour, and so click and drag a camera pointer directly at the entryway.
6. Click on the transom window to select it and using the edit handles that display, make any needed adjustments to its size or its position over the door and side lites.
7. When the you lot are satisfied with the appearance of the entryway:
   • Click on the transom window to select it.
   • Concord down the Shift key on your keyboard.
   • Click one time on the blocked door side lites to select them as a group.
   • Click the Brand Mulled Unit edit button to create an architectural block that includes the blocked door and side lites, forth with the transom window.
8. Select 3D> Create Perspective View> Full Camera from the menu and click and elevate a camera arrow in the management of the entryway to see the results.

To add a custom entryway to the library

If you want to, you tin add your custom transom entryway to the Doorways library category for future use.

1. In either a second or 3D view, use the Select Objects tool and click on the blocked entryway to select it.
2. Click the Add together to Library edit button.

   This will add the mulled unit to the Library Browser, where yous can and then rename it, move it into the advisable user created binder that y'all have created for information technology, and make other modifications.

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Source: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00334/creating-a-transom-and-side-lites-for-a-door.html

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