A boring post about…Doors And their Parameters.
Door Things
- The door you are thinking of it is actually called a leaf
- Possible Widths: 18, 20, 22, 24, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 42, 48 inches
- Possible Thicknesses: 1.375, 1.75, 2, 2.25
The underlying data basically supports that the default door leaf is 36″ wide and 1 3/4″ Thick. In the spirit of only plans, we will ignore height for now.
- Door Clearance Arc Radius: = Possible Widths
- Open Door Additional Clearance: 3″
- Jamb Width – I will make a separate post about walls, which drives jamb width. Jk its below.
- Jamb Thickness:0.75, 0.875, 1, 1.25
- Lost my energy here.. now wanting to make a wall configurator, as the wall thickness drives exactly how wide the jamb needs to be
Alright back to the basics of architecture. A wall is basically gyp+stud+gyp. This means that the Jamb needs to be larger than the stud its anchored to.
I wonder if I can get GPT to visualize this with gyp…
Nuts. Okay so here we have our possible dimensions for Jamb widths, with an explanation of why. Except Jambs are always like 1/16″ larger than what is shown here.
Door Assembly Width = Jamb Thickness (0.75, 0.875, 1, 1.25) + Leaf Width (18, 20, 22, 24, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 42, 48) + Jamb Thickness (0.75, 0.875, 1, 1.25). Nice. The cross product of these two give us our possible portal widths. The Jamb data gives us the depths. Walls and Doors are basically the same thing. To build doors, you need walls. Those walls, though, will only have standard widths that look like this:
