Doors for
model houses

How to use it§ 01

1. Open the Library (Advanced mode) and go to Buildings.
2. Pick Door. A preview stands on the plate while you set it up.
3. Choose the Type: Single, Double, French or Dutch. It fills in the leaves, the split and the glazing. Change any of them after.
4. Set Width and Height (the outside of the frame) and the shape: square, or arched with its rise.
5. Choose the leaf: plain, paneled, or glazed at the top. Set the panels and the panes.
6. Add sidelights and a transom (a fanlight, under an arch) if you want them.
7. Tick Lay flat to print when it is ready, then Insert. Change it later with Edit settings.

Types of door§ 02

Single

One leaf with panels sunk into its face. Set how many panels there are, 1 to 6, and how deep they are sunk.

Shown at 11 × 25 mm, four panels

Glazed

Glass in the top panels, divided by bars. Choose how many panels are glazed, counted from the top, and how many panes across and up.

Shown with two panels, the top one glazed, two by two panes

Double

Two leaves side by side, each with its own panels. For a wide entrance.

Shown at 18 × 25 mm, three panels each

French

Two leaves, glazed from top to bottom and divided into small panes. The glass is a part of its own.

Shown at 18 × 25 mm, two by four panes each

Dutch

A stable door: split across the middle, so the top half can open on its own. The leaf is set further back in its frame, which is what tells a stable door from a plain one at model size.

Shown with a split, a glazed top, set back 0.8 mm

Arched, with a fanlight

An arched top, round or shallow (set the rise), and a fanlight under the arch. The transom is the glazed panel over the door.

Shown at 16 × 30 mm, a 6.4 mm fanlight

An entrance§ 03

Add sidelights, fixed glazed panels beside the door, one on the left or one on each side, and a transom over it. Together they make a full entrance.

Printing it§ 04

We assume you print the door with its facade side up. Tick Lay flat to print and the door lies on its back, facade up. The glass is the first layers on the plate, in clear filament, so the glass can be one filament change. The frame and leaf are one part and print as one.

You can have the glass as panes in the openings or as one clear sheet across the back of the door. Or switch it off, and the glazed panels, sidelights and transom stay open.

The numbers§ 05

Good to know§ 06

• Set a model scale such as 1:87 and the panel reads out the real size. It also warns when the door is lower than a real door, about 1950 mm, so people would have to stoop.
• The door’s pivot is the middle of its bottom edge, at the back. Change its numbers and it stays standing on the floor, where it was.
• Set it into an opening of the same size, then Merge. The glass is a part of its own, so a door with glass is an assembly.
• If an arch would come down to the floor, the panel says so.
• For windows that match, see Windows. For brick or stone around the door, see Cladding.