basicUpdated May 31, 2026

Opening context menu

The right-click and long-press menu on a door, window, or cased opening — Rotate Swing, Duplicate, Properties, and Delete.

Right-click an opening on desktop, or long-press one on mobile, to open the opening context menu. It carries the quick actions on a placed door, window, or cased opening — rotating the swing on a door, duplicating, opening the full properties sheet on mobile, and deleting.

This is the dedicated reference for that menu. For the broader picture of every menu branch (walls, fixtures, guides, annotations, empty canvas), see Canvas context menu.

How to open the menu

  • Desktop: right-click anywhere on a door, window, or cased opening.
  • Mobile: long-press the opening. The browser's default right-click menu is suppressed so you get the app menu instead.

If the opening isn't part of the current selection, clicking it selects just that one. If the opening is already part of a multi-selection, the menu still only acts on this single opening — see the multi-select note below.

Entry Type What it does
Door Properties / Window Properties / Opening Properties Mobile only Opens the full properties sheet for the opening. The entry label changes to match the type. Desktop already shows the same content in the right-rail entity panel, so this entry doesn't appear there.
Rotate Swing Doors only Cycles through the four swing directions: In ←In →Out ←Out → → back to In ←. Each click advances by one. Doesn't appear on windows or cased openings.
Duplicate All Drops a copy on the same wall in the nearest free gap. The duplicate inherits most of the original's spec — width, height, swing, arc, trim, door style, slab type, hardware finish, notes, double-door flag. It does NOT carry the Exterior flag, exterior subtype, or slide direction, so an exterior door duplicates as an interior entry door. Re-flag exterior status on the duplicate if you need it. Rejects with a snackbar if the wall is too crowded for another opening to fit. See Opening overlap prevention for the search behaviour.
Delete Door / Delete Window / Delete Opening All Removes the opening. The entry text matches the type. Undo brings it back as one step.

A note on multi-select

The opening context menu acts on the single opening you right-clicked, even if other entities are also selected. Unlike walls, fixtures, and annotations, the opening menu doesn't surface a Duplicate Selection (N items) entry or group-delete the whole selection — those flows live on the wall, fixture, and annotation menus instead. To duplicate or delete a multi-select group that includes openings, right-click a wall or fixture in the same selection and the menu handles the whole group there.

What's NOT on the menu

A few actions look like they belong here but live elsewhere:

  • Change width / height / sill / trim — open the properties sheet (mobile: tap Properties here, or use the entity info button; desktop: the entity panel on the right).
  • Move along wall / move to another wall — drag the opening on the canvas. There's no menu entry for it.
  • Toggle Exterior / Existing / Double Door — entity panel only.
  • Door style / Slab type / Hardware finish — entity panel only.

Tips

  • Rotate Swing is the fastest way to fix a wrong-direction door swing on a placed door — one right-click per cycle step. Mobile users get the same flow through the swing button on the opening edit panel.
  • Duplicating a door preserves its swing direction. If you duplicate a left-in door, the copy starts as a left-in door — rotate it if the duplicate should swing the other way.
  • The Duplicate entry won't land a copy on a different wall on its own. It searches outward along the original wall for the nearest free gap; if the wall is fully packed, it rejects. To copy onto another wall, place the destination opening fresh with the tool.
  • Right-clicking an opening at its edge can land on the wall instead — the wall menu and the opening menu are different. Click closer to the middle of the opening if the wall menu opens by mistake.

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