Va Subtraction from door inside block undoes when block closed

[djhg]

1. Make a solid to subtract from a door leaf
2. Make a wall with a door and one without a door.
3. Make the doorless wall into a block.
4. Open the block for editing
5. Add the door and the solid to the block and insert the door into the wall.
6. Subtract the solid from the door leaf.
7. Close the block, and the subtraction undoes itself.

All those steps might not be required to create the unwanted undo, but it’s the route I took. It may happen if all the objects are created within the block.

[alfmelbev (Alfonso Melero Beviá)]

Hi @djhg,

Thank you for reporting this issue. We will keep you updated about it.

[djhg]

It seems worth mentioning that I do not see how to make a custom door which proliferates everywhere on a project with the acknowledged issue above as well as the one acknowledged here:

Multiple iterations of a door containing glass openings

I need to create groups of custom door types with glass in varying configurations in multiple doors. Solids subtracted from a door are lost within a block, whether the block is created after the subtraction, or if the subtraction happens within the blocks. It appears that voids created by subtraction from doors do not move when the door does? Maybe if the voids are grouped with the doors prior to subtraction… No, it appears that every single iteration of an identical door with an identical sub…

Resolution of one or both of these would be very helpful, or a tip on how to efficiently accomplish subtractions (glazing) and additions (push bar) to doors without copying and pasting the solids at every iteration of a door, and then performing subtractions and additions not only for every door, but also every time any door is moved.

[alfmelbev (Alfonso Melero Beviá)]

Hi @djhg,

You can create this subtraction using Grasshopper, so that you can do it in every door no matter where they are.

Subtract solids.3dm (2.7 MB)
Subtract solids.gh (3.9 KB)

[djhg]

Thanks Alfonso. I’m not really very experienced with grashopper, but I will give this a try…Unfortunately I don’t have the facility with Grasshopper to even make it work with the sample file, but thanks anyway.