Most of the sliding glass doors that i use are not recessed into the wall.
How to create a sliding shower door in chief archiect.
Creating a shower niche or wall niche using the niche tool.
You can model the wall framing required for nearly any wall opening.
It seems that chief s sliding glass doors are inset to the interior face of the wall similarly to a swinging door.
Using specifications for individual doors and windows.
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There are a variety of ways to control how doors and windows are framed in chief architect.
By manually editing wall framing.
They are vinyl frame and are installed like windows.
Place the doors and you will be able to slide them open or shut.
The niche tool makes creating wall and shower niches easy with a single click.
Again you could make your door from geometrics put it all together then export a dxf from view then import this via th symbol wizard.
Creating a curtain wall use windows to create curtain walls for commercial or residential buildings in sun rooms or indoor swimming pools.
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Make a copy of the necessary door symbol and rename it to something like custom back slider change the y origin probably 1 adjust the bounding box width to make it just a hair smaller maybe 1 2 and change the x origin to maybe 1 4 3 8.
The framing around a custom door and window unit can be customized in any way you choose when using chief architect.
Iow in perspective views they are not flush with the exterior wall surface.
Using a glass wall and a barn door works if both ends are enclosed by walls but if you have a glass shower pony wall like shown in the pics below the corner becomes an issue because the glass wall for the door won t join with the glass pony wall at the corner properly.
They are also totally customizable as well.
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The glass wall and a barn door does work sort of.
Cabinet door window labels.
