Doors and windows on the building

Place entry doors, overhead doors, sliding doors and windows on any wall, drag them where you want, and get the framing, the trim and the order that goes with them.

What it is

Openings are wall-anchored (wall plus an offset along it, never world coordinates), so they survive a resize. Each carries a kind, clear width and height, offset, sill, an optional catalogue package id, an insulated flag, glazing and finish. Every opening produces a full framing package, a real 3D assembly, trim, and BOM lines.

Also called: openings · overhead doors · garage doors · walk doors · man doors · sliders · barn doors · windows

See it, piece by piece
01

Place a door and its framing comes with it

Every opening puts jamb posts, a header sized for the span, cripples and a window sill into the model and onto the order in the same action. Girt rows stop at the jamb faces instead of running through the doorway, and a grid post that lands inside an opening is dropped, its load carried by the header into the jambs. What is drawn is buildable as drawn.

02

Ordered by name — 3068, 10x10 shop standard, 16x14 RV

Openings are placed from a list of the packages builders actually order, grouped as entry doors, overhead doors, sliding doors and windows, with insulated versions as their own rows rather than a checkbox nobody notices. Right-click an existing door to change its size from the same list, with the price of each size showing before you pick one.

Design — Garage Door 1
Garage Door 1

Pick a standard size, or type your own. Manufacturer packages you add later will show up here.

10×10
10′ × 10′ · Shop standard
10×10 insulated
10′ × 10′ · Shop standard
12×12
12′ × 12′
14×12
14′ × 12′
14×14
14′ × 14′
16×14
16′ × 14′ · RV / equipment
Width(ft)
−14′+

width stopped at a jamb, neighbor, or type limit

Height(ft)
−12′+
Offset(ft)
−13′+
Sill(ft)
−0′+

Bay 2, 10′0″ off the post

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The named size grid — 10×10 shop standard, 14×12, 16×14 RV / equipment. The real screen, drawn from the product’s own design system. Sample data — no customer information appears here.
03

Drag them into line and they line up

Drag an opening and guides pull its edges, centreline, sill and head onto the other openings — heads and sills match across every wall, because a window band usually runs at one height right around a building. Hold shift to lock the direction, alt to duplicate. Framing clearances are applied after the snap, so a guide you watched lock is a line you actually got.

04

The stepper simply stops where the wall stops

One rule set handles every width, height, offset and sill change, whether you typed it or dragged it: wall ends, clearance to the neighbours, manufactured size caps, and enough height left over for the header that span now needs. When one edge runs out of room the opening keeps growing the other way instead of refusing. It also says what stopped it — width stopped at a jamb, neighbor, or type limit.

05

Named by what goes through them, on both sides of the conversation

Entry Door, Overhead Door, Sliding Door, Window — one label on the menu, the material list, the estimate and the customer portal. Walk door is jargon a homeowner has never heard, garage door is wrong on a barn with no garage, and sliding door reads as a patio slider. The trade names still search, so man door or barn door finds the right thing.

06

Four windows, evenly spaced, in one drag

Shift-click a row of openings and move them as a group, then grab a joint between them to set equal gaps. Which end stays pinned depends on which joint you grabbed: the leftmost pins the right end, a middle joint holds the row's centre. Quarter, half and three-quarter buttons place things where somebody standing outside facing the wall would mean, on all four walls.

07

An insulated door looks insulated from the inside

Doors are built as full-depth assemblies rather than pictures on the skin: an overhead door is a hollow steel box with stiles and rails on its interior face, and the insulated version is visibly filled with foam. Windows get a jamb liner and glass set back for a real reveal. A barn door hangs outside on a track that runs past the opening, and the track and trolleys reach the order because the track is drawn. From inside in walk mode, the insulated upgrade is something the customer can see.

How it works
  1. 1Add from the panel (+ Door), from the right-click menu at the point you clicked, or by duplicating an existing one.
  2. 2Openings are labelled automatically per type in spec order (Door 1, Window 2, Garage Door 1), derived from the same array everywhere so the side panel and the viewport can never disagree.
  3. 3Drag to move with automatic smart guides; drag edge tabs to resize; multi-select to move or distribute a row.
  4. 4The engine emits jamb posts, a span-sized header, cripples, a window sill and interrupted girt rows for each one.
  5. 5The takeoff groups them by kind and size and adds opening trim by perimeter.
Why we built it

Openings positioned in open space float free the moment a wall moves, which leaves framing and steel hanging in mid-air. Every opening is anchored to its wall — which wall, which side, how far along — so resizing the building carries its doors and windows with it. A clamp runs over every opening before any geometry is derived, so no interface bug or hand-edited file can put framing in space, while the warnings a builder sees are computed from what they actually typed, so the message names the real mistake rather than the corrected value.

The problem
  • Openings drawn without the framing they require.
  • Openings that survive a building resize in the wrong place.
Sound familiar?
What you get
Every opening carries its jambs, header, cripples and trim onto the order.
Resizing the building never orphans an opening.
One naming scheme across the panel, the model, the BOM and the estimate.
What's inside
Headers, jambs and cripples sized for the span
Every opening gets full-height jamb posts, a header sized by its clear span, cripples above it and a window sill — all drawn and all on the order.
Never a post standing in a doorway
A grid post that falls inside an opening — or too close to its edge — is omitted, and its load goes through the header into the jamb posts.
Drag a door, guides snap it into line
Drag an opening across the wall and it snaps to line up with the others — edges, centrelines, sills and heads — with framing clearances applied last so a snap can never produce an illegal placement.
Select several openings and space them evenly
Shift-click a row of openings, drag them together, then grab a joint between them to set equal gaps — with the pinned end determined by which joint you grabbed.
Quarter, half and three-quarter, from where you are standing
Position buttons that mean what a person standing outside facing the wall means — the left quarter is the left you can see.
Sizes that stop where reality stops
One resolver clamps every width, height, offset and sill edit — panel steppers and drag handles alike — against wall ends, neighbours, header depth and manufactured size caps.
Standard door and window packages
Named packages a builder recognises — 3068, 6068 double, 10x10 shop standard, 16x14 RV, 3x4 slider — placed by name instead of by typing dimensions.
One name a builder and a customer both read the same way
Openings are named by what goes through them — Entry Door, Overhead Door, Sliding Door, Window — with the trade names kept searchable so nobody has to relearn their own vocabulary.
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.

See it on your own jobs

Twenty minutes, your numbers, no slide deck. We’ll build one of your real buildings in front of you and send you the estimate link at the end — yours to keep either way.

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