Place a door

The Door tool drops a door opening onto an existing wall. Use it once the room's walls are in place — a door has to live on a wall, so there's nothing to place against on an empty canvas.

Before you start

Draw at least one wall in the room. See Draw a wall if you haven't laid out any walls yet. The Door tool will only accept a click that lands on or very close to a wall.

Steps (desktop)

1. Click the Door / Window / Opening button in the left toolbar (the icon is a door by default), or press D. The button is a Photoshop-style group — if it last showed a window or opening icon, click it once to activate the displayed variant, then click it again to open the flyout and pick Door.
2. Hover over a wall. A ghost outline previews where the door will land at the current default width.
3. Click on the wall at the position where the door should sit. The Add Door dialog opens.
4. Pick a Width preset (24", 28", 30", 32", 36") or type a custom width in the Custom width field. The dialog accepts feet-and-inches (2'10"), inches (32"), or millimetres (812) — same as every other length field in the editor.
5. Optionally type a Trim width per side — useful when the project's casing depth needs to show on the plan.
6. Pick a Height preset (78", 80", 84", 96") or type a custom header height.
7. Toggle Exterior if the door is part of the building envelope. Exterior doors print on the schedule as a separate group and accept patio / terrace subtypes from the entity panel later.
8. Toggle Double door for a two-leaf door. The swing chips collapse to Open In / Open Out since both leaves swing the same way; single doors show all four swing directions.
9. Pick a Swing — In ←, In →, Out ←, Out →. The arrow shows which way the door opens relative to the wall direction.
10. Tap Place. The door commits with the chosen settings, and the tool switches back to Select so you can keep working.

The values you just picked become the next-time defaults for the Door tool — open the tool again and the dialog pre-fills with what you placed last.

Fast path — Shift+click to skip the dialog

Once you've placed one door, hold Shift and click another wall to drop a second door with the same defaults instantly — no dialog. Useful when you're laying out a row of identical interior doors down a hallway.

Steps (mobile / tablet)

The Door tool works the same way on a phone or tablet — the difference is how you reach the variant picker.

1. Tap the Door / Window / Opening button in the left toolbar.
2. If the button is showing the door icon already, you're on the Door tool. If it shows Window or Opening, long-press the button to open the variant flyout and tap Door.
3. Tap a wall where the door should sit. The Add Door dialog opens — same fields as desktop.
4. Pick width, height, swing, and any toggles, then tap Place.

The on-screen keyboard opens automatically for the custom-width and custom-height fields.

Tips

• The variant flyout (door / window / opening) is one shared button, not three separate icons. The icon you see is whichever variant you used most recently.
• A door placed on an exterior wall doesn't automatically flag as exterior — you have to set the Exterior toggle in the dialog (or later in the entity panel). Once exterior, switch the Subtype to Patio for a sliding glass door, or Terrace for a french double.
• The dialog's width and trim values commit independently from the wall's thickness. A 32" door on a 6" wall draws a 32" opening with a 6" jamb depth.
• For the details of every door field after placement, see Entity panel. On mobile, see Opening edit panel (mobile).
• If the placement dialog says the door overlaps an existing opening, see Opening overlap prevention for the fix.