Opening types reference

VisionPlan has three opening types: Door, Window, and Cased Opening. All three live on a wall, all three render as a void cut through that wall, and all three commit through the same Door / Window / Opening toolbar button. The difference is what they show on the plan and what fields they expose.

At a glance

Property	Door	Window	Cased Opening
Has a slab on the plan	Yes — door panel + jamb	No — glass + sill	No — empty hole
Has a swing arc	Yes — optional toggle	No	No
Has glass hatching	No	Yes	No
Has a sill height field	No	Yes	No
Can be Exterior	Yes — entry / patio / terrace subtypes	Treated as exterior by convention (no toggle in v1)	Treated as interior by convention (no toggle in v1)
Can be Double	Yes — two-leaf double door	No	No
Default width	30"	36"	30"
Default height	80" header	36" window + 36" sill	80" header
Toolbar shortcut	D	W	O

Door

A wall opening with a swinging or sliding door slab. Renders the slab outline, the jamb, and (optionally) the swing arc on the plan. Doors carry the spec-sheet fields used in the door schedule on print: door style, slab type, hardware finish.

Exterior doors are doors with the Exterior toggle set. The Subtype picks one of three exterior variants:

• Entry — single hinged exterior door (default).
• Patio — sliding glass two-panel door. The plan adds a slide-direction arrow.
• Terrace — french double door.

The legacy sliding subtype (single-panel slider) was retired pre-launch — older projects with that value are coerced to Patio on load so they still render.

Doors swing in four directions: In ←, In →, Out ←, Out →. The arrow points the direction the door opens, not the direction the hinge sits on. The schedule print uses the construction-takeoff convention and labels by hinge side (Hinged Right for in-left, etc.), which is the inverted name of the swing direction.

Use Door whenever:

• The opening has an actual door slab (interior or exterior).
• The plan needs to show a swing arc.
• The door schedule (on print) should include the opening.

Window

A wall opening with glass. Renders the glass hatching, the rough opening, and a sill at the bottom. Windows carry a sill height — the distance from finished floor to the bottom of the opening — that doors and cased openings don't have.

Windows are treated as exterior by convention in residential plans — the placement dialog doesn't expose an Exterior toggle for windows, so every window you place sits in the schedule as an exterior opening regardless of where on the plan it lives.

Use Window whenever:

• The opening has glass.
• The plan needs to show a sill height.
• The window schedule should include the opening.

Cased Opening

A wall void with optional trim, no door slab, no glass. Renders as an empty hole with casing on both sides if a trim width is set. No swing, no sill.

Use Cased Opening whenever:

• The opening is an archway, pass-through, or framed wall cut without a door.
• The plan should show only the casing, not a slab.
• The opening is between interior rooms with no privacy requirement (kitchen-to-dining, living-to-hallway).

How they're picked

All three live behind a single toolbar button — the Door / Window / Opening group, second column from the top in the left toolbar. The icon you see on the collapsed button is whichever variant you used most recently. To switch:

• Desktop: click an inactive icon to activate that variant. If the displayed variant is already active, click again to open the flyout and pick a different one. Or use the keyboard shortcuts D, W, O.
• Mobile: long-press the button to open the flyout, then tap the variant you want.

Tips

• A door becomes a cased opening if you delete the slab — except there's no "delete slab" action. Place a Cased Opening from scratch instead.
• The placement dialog adapts to the tool you picked — the Add Door / Add Window / Add Opening title and the fields below it change per type. You can't change type mid-dialog; cancel and pick a different tool.
• For overlap behaviour when two of any type would land on the same wall span, see Opening overlap prevention.
• For every editable property on a placed opening, see Entity panel.