Doors and windows with real depth

An overhead door is a hollow steel box you can read from inside, an insulated one is visibly filled with foam, a window has a jamb liner and real glass, and a barn door hangs outside on a track.

What it is

Full 3D assemblies rather than textures on the skin. Doors are a full-depth plug filling the rough opening from the inside framing plane to just proud of the skin cut. Windows get a four-board jamb liner plus near-opaque sky-tinted glazing set mid-wall for a real reveal. Sliding doors hang outside the wall from a track that runs on past the opening so the leaf has somewhere to go.

Also called: door assembly · insulated door cutaway · jamb liner · glazing · barn door track

See it
Doors and windows with real depth
New lead 3
Marlin Hoover
$55k
Delia Yoder
$31k
Sutter Kline
$31k
Contacted 4
Sutter Kline
$60k
Ronan Petsch
$33k
Ivy Brubaker
$56k
Estimate 3
Ivy Brubaker
$59k
Gideon Alt
$59k
Sold 2
Marlin Hoover
$51k
Delia Yoder
$20k
Sutter Kline
$52k
Cutaway of an insulated overhead door edge showing steel skins with foam between, next to a window's jamb liner and double-pane glazing with its spacer. Sample data — no customer information appears here.
How it works
  1. 1The overhead door's exterior face sits just proud of the wall steel and its interior face at the inside of the posts, so from the shop floor it has the same volume as the wall it fills.
  2. 2Uninsulated reads as a dark void between the skins; insulated fills that cavity with foam.
  3. 3Left and right edges are a sandwich so the core reads in side view; top and bottom are steel; the interior face has stiles and rails.
  4. 4Walk doors stay a 1.75in slab because they are a different product.
  5. 5The window's liner seals the slit between glass and skin cut on all four sides; insulated glazing is two panes with a visible spacer, which is how you read it from inside.
  6. 6Sliding doors are NFBA 'Sliding Door, aka Barn Door' and the takeoff bills track plus trolley hangers by leaf width.
Why we built it

An opening cut into a wall used to leave a gap you could see straight through to the outdoors, which makes a render look unfinished and starts a customer wondering what else is missing. Doors and windows are modelled as real assemblies — frames, rails, glazing, and the insulation inside an insulated door, so the upgrade is something a customer can see rather than a line on a quote. The layers sit slightly off the wall's inner faces, because butting them flush made the door flicker between black void and yellow foam at any distance.

The problem
  • Openings drawn as flat texture with a sightline straight through the wall.
  • An insulation upgrade that is invisible in the model.
Sound familiar?
What you get
The insulated-door upsell is visible from inside in walk mode.
Sliding-door track and trolleys get onto the order because the track is modelled.
The interior reads as a real building from the shop floor.

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