Add doors to walls with the Door tool

A door is a parametric shape drawn between two anchors: the two ends of the opening. Reach for it whenever the facility has real doorways — office doors, fire exits, dock doors, revolving lobby entrances. Doors attach to your existing walls and cut a hole where they land, and they open a gap in the walkability grid that indoor routing uses.

To open the tool: open the Draw flyout on the left toolbar and pick Add door, or press D on the keyboard. The `=` key also opens it when nothing is selected (with a shape selected, `=` scales it instead). Saved doors are listed under Doors in the side panel.

Doors matter most for indoor wayfinding. A route can't pass through a wall, so a walled room only becomes reachable once its wall has a door. That means a door in the wall of each room you want routes to reach, such as an office or a stockroom off the sales floor. The Retail Mart Store demo has its doors drawn: Door 1, Door 2 and so on along its walls.

The Door tool has two placement flows depending on whether you're near a wall. It picks the right one automatically.

1. 1
   Set the door up first (optional)

   Open the tool with nothing selected; the side panel shows "Placing door" with the Placement hint and an Exit door tool button, plus Type / Dimensions / Visibility / Appearance. Pick Single / Double / Sliding / Revolving and the Opening width (default 0.9 m) before you click — the preview uses whatever you set. Opening width only applies to doors snapped to a wall; a free-space door takes the distance between your two clicks.

2. 2
   Hover over a wall to snap

   The cursor changes to a "copy" icon and the preview door snaps to the wall's axis. Click once to commit.

3. 3
   Or click twice in free space

   Away from any wall, click to place the first jamb, then click the opposite jamb — the width and heading come from the distance between the two clicks.

4. 4
   The tool exits to Select

   After the commit the tool switches to Select and the side panel opens on the new door, named Door 1, Door 2 and so on, so you can tweak it right away. Press D again for the next door.

The Type section starts with a 4-button picker. The fields below it change with the kind.

Every door has a State with three options — Closed, Ajar and Open. It sets the pose the door is drawn in (for example, a hinged leaf swung to its Open angle), so you can show the right pose in the viewer or a share link.

When one door is selected the side panel is a CAD-style editor. Click the name in the header to rename it.

Doors have a control the other tools don't: a nudge pad in the Actions section ("Move (along the wall, not the map)") that moves the door in its own local frame rather than by compass direction. The arrow keys also move a selected door in its own frame, but in bigger steps: 0.5 m per press, 5 m with Shift.

Indoor routing builds a walkability grid from the current floor: areas are walkable, walls and other lines block, and every visible door punches a gap back through the wall at its opening — whatever its State. Without a door, a route can't pass through a wall. Routing is per floor; stairs and lifts aren't part of the route search. See Wayfinding.

Shift-click (or ⌘/Ctrl-click) doors to build a multi-selection. The panel switches to "N doors selected" with Fit and Delete all (two-click confirm). Bulk mode keeps the panel short — the fields that describe an individual door stay per-door.