In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to insert objects to a new construct drawing in AutoCAD Architecture.

At the bottom of this tutorial you can find a video screencast showing you how to insert objects to a new construct drawing.

How To Insert Objects to a New Construct Drawing

In the following you will edit a new independent construct drawing for the created chimney.

1. Press Ctrl+3 to hide the Tool Palettes, and press Ctrl+5 to display the Project Navigator palette.
2. Turn to the Constructs tab.
3. With the left mouse button select the chimney body and then press the left mouse button above it, and keep it pressed.
4. Keep the left mouse button and drag the chimney body to the Project Navigator palette, to the Constructs folder name, and let the left mouse button go.



5. Dragging into the folder effects that the Add Construct panel displays. Override the Name to Chimney on it, and in the Assignments field turn on the Ground Level, the Ground Floor and the First Floor levels checkboxes. Turn on also the Open in drawing editor checkbox. With this operation after closing the panel, the new created drawing will open at once.
6. Exit the panel by pressing OK.
   

   It is seen that the new Construct drawing was created like you would have opened a new drawing by using the template drawing, and you would have dragged the chimney in it with the original coordinates with Copy – Paste (Ctrl+C – Ctrl+V) command pair.

7. In the new opening drawing only the chimney can be seen.



8. Save the drawing with the Savecommand, and close the Chimney drawing.

I hope you enjoyed this part of the AutoCAD Architecture video tutorials series (YouTube video tutorial coming soon – make sure you subscribe to my YouTube channel and email list so you’ll get notified when I publish this video). In the next article I’ll show you how to dragging the chimney as Xref to the Entry Level Drawing. If you liked this tutorial make sure you subscribe for more in the upper right corner (where you can also download the first chapters of my AutoCAD Architecture eBook free) and also subscribe to my YouTube channel.

If you would like to create the whole project of a two-story house with Sheets and Annotation, please follow the link and buy my eBook, which guides you step by step (Imperial and Metric version available).

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In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to create the chimney flues with the Body Modifier in AutoCAD Architecture.

At the bottom of this tutorial you can find a video screencast showing you how to create the chimney flues with the Body Modifier.

How To Create Chimney Flues with the Body Modifier

The two flues, started from different height of the chimney, are created that the Box shaped Mass elements are placed in the chimney body, (which is wall), and they are extracted from the chimney body by the Body Modifier.

1. On the Tool Palette change to the Massing palette.



2. Click on the Box tool icon on the palette.



3. Before the insertion set the dimensions of the first rectangular body.
   Set the value of the Specify on screen parameter to No,
   the Width value to 250 [10”],
   the Depth value to 250 [10”],
   the Height value to 9300 [30’-6”].
   The 9300 mm [30’-6”] flue height comes from that the bottom of the chimney, started from the ground level, will be 300 mm [1’-0”] far down the floor level of the ground floor, and the flue has to start 400 mm [1’-4”] far from the floor level of the ground level.



4. After returning to the drawing area, put the first flue body to any place, next to the chimney, and press ENTER to accept the offered 0 (zero) rotation value.



5. Program prompts at once the next body insertion point, but first you have to go to the Properties palette and set the dimensions of it.
   At the second flue all data remains unchangeable, only the Height is changed to 6300 mm [20’-6”]. (This flue will start 400 mm [1’-4”] far from the first floor level.)



6. The second flue is put eye-to-measure only below the first, outside of the chimney body, and accept 0 (zero) rotation value, as well.
7. Press ENTER to finish the recursive operation of the insertion mass element.



8. From the Ribbon, Home tab, Modify panel, start the AutoCAD Move command and snap to MIDpoint and move the top (higher) flue to the upper midpoint of the chimney body, the lower flue to the lower MIDpoint, like in the figure.



9. Select the upper flue mass element.
10. After clicking in the displayed center grips (become red) the dimension inputs of the flue movement display and the dimensions of vertical movement indicates with blue color that it is active.
11. Press once the Tab button on the keyboard to make the other dimension input active, which is responsible for vertical movement, (after some time it becomes blue). Start to drag the Mass Element down and then type 125 [5”] value of the movement and press ENTER.



12. Use the above method to move the lower flue up with 125 mm [5”].



13. Select the upper flue and set the Elevation parameter value to 700 mm [2’-4”] on the Design Tab of the Properties palette.



14. Press ESC to throw away this selection.
15. With similar method set the lower flue Elevation value to 4700 mm [12’-4”].



NOTE: Since this elevation is above the Cut Plane, Mass Element may seem only in dashed display.

16. Select the wall of the chimney body, from the Ribbon – Contextual Wall tab – Modify panel choose the Add command from the Body Modifiers drop-down list.



17. To command prompt select the two Mass elements as the body modifier, then press ENTER.
18. Notice that at the top on the displayed Add Body Modifier panel, the Brick Veneer component is set (as a single layer wall, it cannot be other).
    Set the type of the Operation to Subtractive.
    Type Flues in the Description.
    Turn on the Erase Selected Object(s).
19. Close the panel by pressing OK.



20. As a result the status can be seen like in the figure. The second flue disappears because you are in the ground floor drawing, and its Global Cut Plane is set above the floor level by 1400 mm [3’-6”], so it does not intersect the second flue.

I hope you enjoyed this part of the AutoCAD Architecture video tutorials series. In the next article I’ll show you how to insert objects to a new construct drawing. If you liked this tutorial make sure you subscribe for more in the upper right corner (where you can also download the first chapters of my AutoCAD Architecture eBook free) and also subscribe to my YouTube channel.

If you would like to create the whole project of a two-story house with Sheets and Annotation, please follow the link and buy my eBook, which guides you step by step (Imperial and Metric version available).

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In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to create the chimney body from the wall object in AutoCAD Architecture.

At the bottom of this tutorial you can find a video screencast showing you how to create the chimney body from the wall object.

How To Create the Chimney Body from the Wall Object

The fireplace chimney joined outside to the living room is created in the Entry Level drawing, immediately as a multi-level structure, and then it is placed to a separate drawing, which will be converted to the Ground Level, the Ground Floor and the First Floor levels, as well. So it will be a so-called spanned construct drawing.

The external wall and the chimney (wall) are not needed to be cleaned up, so they have to be taken to the other Wall Cleanup Group Definitions. Now a new one is being created for the chimney.

1. Go to the Manage tab on the Ribbon and from the Style & Display panel you can open the Style Manager.



2. Below the current drawing, on the displaying Style Manager panel (Entry Level.dwg) click on the plus sign to open the Architectural Objects list, and open the Wall Cleanup Group Definitions list there.



3. Go to the Standard style and make a copy of it with Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V.



4. Choose the resulting new style (Standard (2)), and override its name to Chimney on the General tab. Then close the panel by pressing OK.



5. Zoom in on the future location of the chimney as shown in the figure.



6. Open the Content Browser (Ctrl+4), within it open the Design Tool Catalog – Metric [Imperial], choose the Walls group from the left list, and finally the Brick category.
   Search the Brick-X named wall style.



7. With earlier shown method drag the Brick-X wall style into the AutoCAD drawing area by using pipette.



8. Before specifying the start point of the wall on the Properties palette, set the parameters of the future chimney body.
   Drop down the list to set the value of the Cleanup group definition to Chimney.
   The Width value is 500 mm. [1’-8”]
   The Base height value is 10000 mm. [32’-10”]
   The Justify value is Right.



9. By earlier learned Object Snap Tracking technique at the drawings the chimney will be placed, so pay attention that the ORTHO (F8), the OSNAP (F3) and the OTRACK (F11) toggle to be on.
   Finally take the cursor to the left bottom corner of the building and touch it but do not click. Then start to drag the cursor up and type 2000 [6’-7”]. The start point of the wall body has been specified. Drag the cursor up but do not click and finally type 1000 [3’-4”] and press ENTER.



10. Press one more ENTER to exit the drawing wall operation

I hope you enjoyed this part of the AutoCAD Architecture video tutorials series. In the next article I’ll show you how to create chimney flues with the body modifier. If you liked this tutorial make sure you subscribe for more in the upper right corner (where you can also download the first chapters of my AutoCAD Architecture eBook free) and also subscribe to my YouTube channel.

If you would like to create the whole project of a two-story house with Sheets and Annotation, please follow the link and buy my eBook, which guides you step by step (Imperial and Metric version available).

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In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to attach railing to the stair in AutoCAD Architecture.

At the bottom of this tutorial you can find a video screencast showing you how to attach railing to your stair.

How to Attach Railing to the Stair

How can you attach railing to the stair created in the previous video? You want to attach the railing to the left edge of the stair.

1. Open the Content Browser (Ctrl+4), within it open the Design Tool Catalog – Metric [Imperial], and choose from the left list the Stairs and Railings group, and the Railings category.
   Turn to 2nd page and search for the Guardrail – Rect. Balusters + Cap 02 named railing styles.



2. With earlier known method by using the pipette, drag the rail into AutoCAD drawing area.



3. Before the real insertion go to the Properties palette and set the Attached to parameter value to Stair option.
   After changing the Automatic placement parameter will be activated, so leave/set it to Yes, and leave/set the Side offset value to 50 [2”].



4. After it for program prompt select the left edge of the stair and with ENTER finish the insertion of other railings.
   NOTE: This, and the Automatic placement – Yes option are enough to create the railing by this edge.



5. To see the result, change to 3D view. Click on the Viewport Controls Top view and choose the SE Isometric from the drop-down list. Clicking on next to it, you can choose the Hidden visual style from the list on the 2D Wireframe label.




6. For better overview select the stair and the railing on the screen, and then clicking on the lamp icon in the right lower corner of the drawing area, use the Isolate Objects command from its menu.
7. The command effects that all other objects disappeared, only the stair and the railing will be visible, so you have better condition to see them.



8. From the same icon, but without pre-selection, prompt again to display the menu. Now you can see the End Object Isolation command there. Click on it to get back the whole display of the building model.



9. By clicking on the Viewport-Controls Hidden label, choose 2D Wireframe from the drop-down list. Click on the SE Isometric and choose Top from the list to get back the plan view.
   NOTE: The order of these two commands is important because you can spare a lot of time with it. So, do not want to display first the plan in hidden visual style, because you cannot see the same like in 2D Wireframe, and it can make your PC very slow.

I hope you enjoyed this part of the AutoCAD Architecture video tutorials series. In the next article I’ll show you How To Creating Chimney Body from Wall Object. If you liked this tutorial make sure you subscribe for more in the upper right corner (where you can also download the first chapters of my AutoCAD Architecture eBook free) and also subscribe to my YouTube channel.

If you would like to create the whole project of a two-story house with Sheets and Annotation, please follow the link and buy my eBook, which guides you step by step (Imperial and Metric version available).

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In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to create Stair Winder Style in AutoCAD Architecture.

At the bottom of this tutorial you can find a video screencast showing you how to create stair winder style.

How to create Stair Winder Style

The next step is to modify the stair originally created by the Balanced Winder Style that the turned steps have to be created central around a single point. Now there is only one Stair Winder Style, so first you have to create a new one.

1. Select the stair and drop down the Edit Style list from the Ribbon contextual Stair tab, and then open the Winder Styles panel.




2. First make a copy about the current Balanced Stair Winder Style. Choose it and then press Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V buttons.



3. Choose the new created style and on the General tab rename it to SinglePoint, and delete the text in the Description field not to keep us away.
4. Then go to the Settings tab and change the Winder Type to SinglePoint, and turn on the Use Riser Line. Close the panel with OK.



5. At the still selected stair go to the Properties palette and change the Winder Style parameter to SinglePoint type.



NOTE: Sometimes the Solution Tip icon display on the stair. The problem is that the turn point is exactly in the corner of the stair.



If you put the cursor on a Solution Tip icon, the program will list the possible problems and also possible solutions.



6. Instead of all the raisers only the steps in the winder will be turned.
   The turn center is placed on the stair edge, so the internal size of the turned steps is 0.
   Click into the circle dark-grey Edit Turns grip, like in the figure.



7. Because of clicking in, the winder becomes “Edit in Place”, so other grips of the selected stair will be disappeared and a rectangular blue grip appears called Turn Center.

NOTE: For the next operation it is useful to turn off the OSNAP mode by using F3, and to turn on the POLAR mode by using F10.

Click in it and then type the following value: @250<135 [@10<135]. It means that the Turn Center was turned by 250 mm [10”] 135 degrees from its original place. Put an end to the stair selection by pressing ESC.



8. Because of the base settings, the stair is created that the last raiser does not belong to the stair but to the coming slab. (See figure part a.) But now you want the last raiser to be the part of the stair. (See figure part b.)



9. So select the stair and on the Design tab of the Properties palette, set the value of the Terminate with to Tread.



10. In terms of the plan one step has been added to the stair because of the step created on the coming level.

I hope you enjoyed this part of the AutoCAD Architecture video tutorials series. In the next article I’ll show you How to Attach Railing to the Stair. If you liked this tutorial make sure you subscribe for more in the upper right corner (where you can also download the first chapters of my AutoCAD Architecture eBook free) and also subscribe to my YouTube channel.

If you would like to create the whole project of a two-story house with Sheets and Annotation, please follow the link and buy my eBook, which guides you step by step (Imperial and Metric version available).

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When you start AutoCAD 2015, before you open any drawings, one of the first things you’ll notice is the New Tab. The New Tab contains two sliding content pages: Learn and Create.

The Create page is displayed by default and serves as a launch pad where you can access files, product updates and online community. It’s divided into three columns.

In the Get Started column you can use the Start Drawing tool to quickly begin a new drawing from a default template or choose from a list of available drawing templates organized by groups. The last template you use becomes the new default. Other tools enable you to Open Existing Drawings and Open Sheet Sets, Get More Templates Online and Explore Sample Drawings.

In the Recent Documents column you can view and open your recent drawings. You can pin the drawings to ensure they remain on the list. Icons at the bottom of the column enable you to change how you preview the recent drawings: Thumbnail view, Text view or Thumbnail and Text view.

The third column enables you to sign into Autodesk 360 and send feedback directly to Autodesk. This column also displays relevant notifications about product updates, hardware acceleration, trial period and offline help.

You can slide to the Learn page from the Create page by clicking on Learn at the left or bottom of the page. To return to the Create page click on Create at the right or bottom of the page.

The Learn page provides tools to help you learn AutoCAD 2015. It’s divided into three columns: What’s New, Getting Started Videos, and Tips and Online Resources. These are all great resources for getting up to speed on AutoCAD 2015 whether you’re a new user or an AutoCAD veteran.

Source: AutoCAD Exchange

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In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to create structure of stair in AutoCAD Architecture.

At the bottom of this tutorial you can find a video screencast showing you how to create the structure of stair.

How to create Structure of Stair

1. Open the Content Browser (Ctrl+4), within it open the Design Tool Catalog – Metric [Imperial], from the left list choose the Stairs and Railings group, and finally the Stairs category.
   Search the Concrete named stair style.
   
2. Take the cursor above the icon, until the cursor becomes pipette. Keep the left button pressed and soak it up with the displaying pipette.
   
3. When the pipette is soaked itself up, keep the left mouse button pressed and drag the pipette into the AutoCAD drawing area, and then let the mouse button go about pouring there the content of the pipette.
4. Before specifying the start point of the stair, set the base parameters of being created stair on the Properties palette.
   The Shape option is set to Multi-landing,
   The Turn type option to 1/4 turn,
   Leave the Winder Style option on Balanced,
   The Vertical orientation value is Up,
   The Width is 1000 mm [3’-6”],
   The Height is 3000 mm [10’-0”],
   The Justify option is Right.
   The Riser count, the Riser and the Tread parameters are not important now, they will be set later.
   
5. The Stair is not inserted to its place at once, you can just put on a place where it is easier to edit and later it will be moved to its place.
   After setting the parameters, snap the ENDpoint shown in the figure as the start point of the stair flight.
   The program marks the justifying of the stair with blue color (right). But if the crosshair is on this line too, it appears yellow.
   
6. Start to drag the stair flight to the right, and type 1300 mm [4’-7”] to the first stair flight length.
   
7. Then continue up the stair flight, and because you do not want any more winder, drag the cursor until the whole stair flight displays, then Left-Click.
   
8. The Stair has been inserted. Press ENTER to mark that no more stairs will be inserted.
   
9. For setting of the Riser count and the Riser values, first select the stair, then on the Properties palette click on the cell next to the Calculation rules (on which the Tread and a small panel sign is seen now).
   
10. Click in the cell to display the Calculation Rules panel in the following status.
    It is seen that only the D – Tread value can be changed.
    Click on theicon in the B-Riser Count line to unlock its editable mode.
    
11. Pay attention that the B-Riser Count field value is set to be 18, the D-Tread value to 280 mm [11”], and then press OK to exit the panel.
    
    During the operation the program can indicate that the values do not satisfy the calculation rules, but if the values are changed, it will be right.
    
12. The Stair will be changed like in the figure. The next step is to move the stair to its place.
13. With the AutoCAD Movecommand move the stair from the ENDpoint to the ENDpoint, so the right bottom corner of the stair fall in the suitable wall corner.
    
    The next step is to turn on visibility of steps above the Cut Plane.
14. Select the stair and open the Stair Style panel with the Edit Style command from the Ribbon contextual Stair tab. Go to the Components tab and turn off the Sloping Riser, and turn on the Tread and the Riser.
    
15. Then go to the Display Properties tab, and then in the Plan High Detail line turn on the Style Override option. On the displayed Display Properties panel the next is to turn on the visibility of the Riser above cut plane on the Layer/Color/Linetype tab, and the visibility of the Path above cut plane. As the Riser Component has been switched on just now, it is not seen in the list of the Display Component. In this case you have to close the panel with OK, and then you can go again to the Stair Style panel and you can turn on visibility of Riser above cut plane and Path above cut plane, because now they are seen in the list. Finally please close the panel with OK.
    

I hope you enjoyed this part of the AutoCAD Architecture video tutorials series. In the next article I’ll show you how to create stair winder style. If you liked this tutorial make sure you subscribe for more in the upper right corner (where you can also download the first chapters of my AutoCAD Architecture eBook free) and also subscribe to my YouTube channel.

If you would like to create the whole project of a two-story house with Sheets and Annotation, please follow the link and buy my eBook, which guides you step by step (Imperial and Metric version available).

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One of the new features in AutoCAD 2015 is the refined user interface. Let’s see how it looks like!

After starting the program, New User Interface will pop up immediately.

AutoCAD 2015 offers a modern dark themed interface that includes the Ribbon, Status Bar, and Pallets. Although we were all used to looking at dark writing on white paper looking at a computer screen is different. The way it is a light source, shining in your eyes. The new dark theme interface combined with the traditional dark model space helps reduce eye strain by dimming the lights and minimizing the contrast between the drawing area and surrounding tools.

You can easily change between the dark and light themes using the Color Scheme control on the Display tab of the Options dialog box.

In addition to supporting the dark color theme, the Ribbon offers improved efficiency for accessing tools.

For example tools on the reorganized View Ribbon tab make it easier to control the visibility of UI elements. Such as the UCS icon, ViewCube, Navigation Bar and Layout Tabs. There are many ways that using the Ribbon can help you work more efficiently.

There are some changes in the below Status Bar compared to the previous one. The earlier 2 Status Bars became one. We used to be able to set back the icons to text, which is not possible in the new version. Based on my first experience if you want to see all icons on the below Status bar, wider resolution than 1280 dpi has to be used.

Another thing I experienced in AutoCAD 2015 is that when we resize window, the Command Window always stays where it was “docked”. In AutoCAD 2014 it did not remain at the “docked” place in case of resizing window.

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Probably being just right before the finish line of releasing AutoCAD Architecture 2015, AUTODESK® recently published its system requirements for AutoCAD 2015.

The one and biggest change compared to the 2014 system requirements is that Microsoft® Windows® XP seems not to be supported anymore. It seems like if you’re still using XP, once you decide to upgrade to AutoCAD 2015 you’ll also need to upgrade your operating system to either Windows 7 or 8.

AutoCAD 2015 System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems

• Microsoft® Windows® 8/8.1
• Microsoft Windows 8/8.1 Pro
• Microsoft Windows 8/8.1 Enterprise
• Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise
• Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
• Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
• Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium

CPU Requirements

AutoCAD 2015 32-bit

• 32-bit Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon™ Dual Core, 3.0 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology

AutoCAD 2015 64-bit

• AMD Athlon 64 with SSE2 technology
• AMD Opteron™ with SSE2 technology
• Intel® Xeon® with Intel EM64T support with SSE2 technology
• Intel Pentium 4 with Intel EM64T support with SSE2 technology

Network requirements

• Deployment via Deployment Wizard.
• The license server and all workstations that will run applications dependent on network licensing must run TCP/IP protocol.
• Either Microsoft® or Novell TCP/IP protocol stacks are acceptable. Primary login on workstations may be Netware or Windows.
• In addition to operating systems supported for the application, the license server will run on the Windows Server® 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows 2008 R2 Server editions, Windows Server 2003, and Windows 2003 R2 Server editions.
• Citrix® XenApp™ 6.5 FP1.

Other System Requirements for AutoCAD 2015

• Memory: 2 GB (8 GB recommended)
• Display Resolution: 1024×768 (1600×1050 or higher recommended) with True Color
• Display Card: Windows display adapter capable of 1024×768 with True Color capabilities. DirectX® 9 or DirectX 11 compliant card recommended but not required.
• Disk Space: Installation 6.0 GB
• Pointing Device: MS-Mouse compliant device
• Digitizer: WINTAB support
• Plotter/Printer: Same as AutoCAD 2013-2014 — system printer and HDI support
• Media (DVD): Download and installation from DVD
• Browser: Windows Internet Explorer® 9.0 (or later)
• Side-by-side Install: Supported
• ToolClips Media Player: Adobe® Flash® Player v10 or up
• .NET Framework: .NET Framework Version 4.5

Additional System Requirements for Large Datasets, Point Clouds, and 3D Modeling

• CPU Type: Intel Pentium 4 processor or AMD Athlon, 3.0 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology; Intel or AMD Dual Core processor, 2.0 GHz or higher
• Memory: 8 GB RAM or greater
• Disk Space: 6 GB free hard disk available, not including installation requirements
• Display Card: 1280×1024 True Color video display adapter 128 MB or greater, Pixel Shader 3.0 or greater, Direct3D®-capable workstation class graphics card.

Source: AUTODESK Knowledge Network.

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In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to modify door/window assembly in AutoCAD Architecture.

At the bottom of this tutorial you can find a video screencast showing you how to insert and reposition your doors.

How to Modify Door/Window Assembly

In order to modify the same assembly like I do, first you have to insert a Hinged Single 2050 + Transom [Hinged Single 6-8 + Transom] named Door/Window Assembly. You can reach it like the following: Content Browser -> Design Tool Catalog (Metric or Imperial) -> Doors and Windows group -> Door and Window Assemblies group -> 3rd [4th] page.

Next step is to change the width of the frame of the entrance door to 100 mm [4”].

1. Drop down the 2nd list of the Viewport controls and select the SE Isometric view.
   
2. Select the entrance door. It is important not to select the door panel but the Door/Window Assembly, e.g.: select the exterior frame.
   Switch on the Show Infill Markers toggle on the Ribbon contextual tab.
   
   As a result those infill markers of the Door/Window Assembly object of the inserted entrance door displays. Now it is easy to select the combination in 3D views, as well.
   
3. The entrance door stays selected, but if you dismissed the selection, select it by using one of the infill markers – the best the bottom –, to display the style Properties panel of the combination of the Edit Style button.
   
4. On displaying panel go to the Design Rules tab, and in the left tree-list go to the Frames.
5. At the right side it is seen that in this combination only one frame is used, no question about which size has to be set.
   Go to the Default Frame at the right side, and set the Width parameter value down to 100 mm [4”].
   
6. Press OK to close this command.
   Then the door inserted to the bottom cell of the entrance door will be changed to Single double glass door style.
7. Use the Design Tool catalog again and select a door style from it. Open the Content Browser (Ctrl+4), within it open the Design Tool Catalog – Metric [Design Tool Catalog – Imperial], and from the left list select the Doors and Windows group, and finally the Doors category.
8. Within the category scroll to the 3rd page and search the Hinged – Single – Double Lite name door style.
   
9. Take the cursor above the icon, until the cursor becomes pipette. Keep the left mouse button pressed and soak it up with the displaying pipette.
10. When pipette is soaked itself up, keep the left mouse button pressed and drag the pipette into the AutoCAD drawing area, and there let the mouse button go about pouring there the content of the pipette.
    
11. For command prompt not a wall will be selected, but – according to displayed infill marker in the figure – a Grid Assembly.
    
12. After selecting the host grid assembly, select the cell in which the door will be inserted.
    Move the cursor – with hatching – so that the program specify the bottom cell, and click with the left mouse button.
    
13. After selecting the host cell, the Add Infill dialog box displays.
    Leave the Add as Cell Assignment settings active and type the name of the new infill Hinged Single Double Lite.
    
14. Press OK to close the panel and the new door style changes the original door type in the lower cell of the combination.
    Then press ENTER to indicate that no more door insertion is expected.
    
15. Select again the entrance door by using the infill markers, and then turn off the visibility of the Infill markers by pressing again the Show Infill Markers button.
    
    In the following the originally independent inserted entrance door will be “unframed”, because in the combination only its panel is necessary. It is made under the original style name, because in the building the original frame type of the door is not needed.
16. On the ViewCube select the Top view to stand back to the plan view.
    
    Then you can see that the used entrance door style took the setting of the original frame.
    
17. Select the door like in the figure (not the frame of the Assembly) Right-Click and select the Edit Door Style… command from the flyout.
    
18. On displayed Dimensions tab of the Door Style Properties panel override the parameter of the Frame A-Width to 0, and turn off the Auto-Adjust to Width of Wall.
    
19. Close the panel with OK. The plan symbol of the entrance door took on the desired display.
    
20. This door style will be used for the last door insertion.
    Select the entrance door – not the wings – and start the Add Selected command from the Ribbon.
    
21. Before selecting the host wall, on the Properties palette set the Position along the wall to Offset/Center, and the Automatic offset to 450 mm [1’-5”].
    
22. After it take the crosshair to the upper wall of the Passage and move the door according to the figure to be 450 mm [1’-5”] far from the left wall, and then Left-Click. Close the insertion with ENTER.
    
23. If you have done the earlier videos, in that case the ground floor of the building in High Detail display configuration and in plan (top) view looks like in the figure now.
    
24. Save the drawing with the Save command.

I hope you enjoyed this part of the AutoCAD Architecture video tutorials series In the next article I’ll show you how to create Structure of Stair. If you liked this tutorial make sure you subscribe for more in the upper right corner (where you can also download the first chapters of my AutoCAD Architecture eBook free) and also subscribe to my YouTube channel.

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