How close to a corner can an interior door be framed?
Past the rough opening the wall needs a jack stud and a king stud (1½″ each — the IRC has a header bear on jack studs with a full-height stud beside it, R602.7.5), clear of the next wall's framing, and room for the casing. For a prehung door with 2¼″ casing that is about 3½″ from the adjacent wall's finished face; wider casing needs more. Our floor plan stops a door there and says which governs.
Draw a door into a corner and the floor plan stops it where it can still be built: past the rough opening the wall has to hold a jack and a king stud (3″), clear of the next wall's framing, and the casing has to fit beside it. Whichever needs more wins, and the plan says so as you drag — "Stops 3½″ from the wall — room for the king and jack studs." A pocket door keeps its pocket in the wall, a barn door its parking run on the face it hangs on, and two doors on one wall keep two sets of studs between them. Windows on the outside wall stop the same way at an interior wall. Casing width is set once for the account (2¼″ standard; 2½″, 3¼″, 3½″ and wider) and can be changed per door; the takeoff counts that casing and the 3D draws it. Drag a door wider and its width suggests a type — a single door to 36″, a pair to 72″, sliding or bifold pairs to 96″, a cased opening past that (your own thresholds) — and you pick the variant or keep yours; it never changes a door by itself. Doors now include sliding (bypass) closet doors with their plan symbol, rough opening, takeoff line and 3D panels that slide with E in Walk, a bifold that folds left, right or both, a simple door panel (width first, then the look: slab, shaker 1, 2 or 5 panel, 6-panel traditional; the rest under More) and a swing handle you drag to flip the hinge and swing. Built exclusively for post-frame and barndominium builders.
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- 1Turn on Doors that fit in Settings → Beta features. With it off, the floor plan's doors work exactly as before.
- 2Set your Casing width (and, if you like, the widths that suggest each door type) in Design defaults; new plans take it.
- 3Drag a door along its wall: it stops where its studs and casing still fit, and the line beside the pointer says why.
- 4Drag a door's jamb wider: when you let go, pick the type its width suggests, or keep yours.
- 5Select a door for the simple panel: Width, then Style; More holds height, casing, rough opening and the rest. Drag the round swing handle to flip it.
Okie Barndominiums' designer, on a design call on 10-22: a door can't be drawn closer to a wall than its casing or the framing it needs, or it can't be installed — and the crew finds out on site. She also asked for the casing to be a setting, for the door type to follow the width, and for every door kind a house uses.
- Doors drawn tight into corners that the crew can't frame or case
- Casing width fixed at 2¼″
- No sliding closet doors
- A bifold that always folded both ways on a wide closet
