Creating a shower niche or wall niche using the niche tool.
How to create a sliding shower door in chief archiect.
You can model the wall framing required for nearly any wall opening.
The framing around a custom door and window unit can be customized in any way you choose when using chief architect.
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.
Most of the sliding glass doors that i use are not recessed into the wall.
Use the railing and pony wall settings to create a glass shower enclosure.
It seems that chief s sliding glass doors are inset to the interior face of the wall similarly to a swinging door.
They are also totally customizable as well.
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.
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.
In my admittedly simple example the doors are made from two geometric cubes and the outer cover from two slabs make and modify in plan view.
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The glass wall and a barn door does work sort of.
Place the doors and you will be able to slide them open or shut.
By manually editing wall framing.
They are vinyl frame and are installed like windows.
Creating a curtain wall use windows to create curtain walls for commercial or residential buildings in sun rooms or indoor swimming pools.
There are a variety of ways to control how doors and windows are framed in chief architect.
Using door window and framing defaults.
