Door insertion ignoring nearest wall (solved: insert THEN reposition)

mallenb
mallenb
edited 7:12PM in BricsCAD BIM
doorinsert01.jpg

Inserting a door seems to only show my distance to the end of the actual wall its being inserted into. Is there a way to get it to recognize the distance to the perpendicular wall?

Being new to BIM, I'm now wondering if this is the incorrect way to draw this wall situation.

Comments

  • Patricia
    Patricia

    Hello,

    If your walls are connected, the distance to the perpendicular wall should be recognized.

    If the walls are connect, please create a Support Request and attach the drawing where you can reproduce this issue.

  • mallenb
    mallenb

    Before I submit a ticket - is "connected" different than "touching"? Is there something special I have to do to make walls connect? (Like the example above, I'm talking about when two walls come together at a "T".

    I just now created a new empty drawing and used Quick Draw to make a simple 4 wall room with slab floor. I used "wall" with the "single wall" option in the dialog box to place a wall within the 4 main walls. This wall was automatically placed touching two of the outer 4 walls.

    I then try to insert a door or window (or anything) on a main wall, and the interior wall is not recognized when I place the object on the main wall.

  • mallenb
    mallenb
    edited 5:57PM

    Support responded (thanks!) Bricscad is operating as designed. To get objects to recognize perpendicular walls, the walls in question need to each be separate entities. T shaped connections need to look like the photo below, as opposed to my original example above.

    Perpendicular Wall Solution.jpg

    I wish walls automatically did this (I'm attempting to migrate from Autocad Architecture where windows and doors automatically recognize perpendicular walls without any special preparations)

  • zoomer
    zoomer

    Sorry but I never noticed such behavior or remember anything missing.

    I did a small test in latest Bricscad BIM and for me it still works as being used to and as expected :

    SCREENSHOT_2026-06-12_20.18.41.jpg

  • zoomer
    zoomer

    EDIT :

    OK, now I see.
    It works different for "placing" a Door than for selecting already inserted Doors ….
    (While inserting the DYNDIM runs through)

    So my recommendation ….

    • place the Door anywhere in the Wall
    • select the Door again
    • in DYNDIM input your desired distance from perpendicular Wall
    SCREENSHOT_2026-06-12_20.22.36.jpg

  • mallenb
    mallenb
    edited 7:13PM

    Thank you! Doing the "insert then reposition" method works as you have described and is much less fiddly than making every connection mitered.