PCStudio - How do you swing your doors?

Question

I'm trying to do something similar to the 3d door swing which comes with the delivered paz's. I don't seem to be able to hold my mouth right in order to re-create the effect. I know it must have something to do with the directional or planar constraint to a Path2d as well as the positioner setting for the component. But this one boggles me. Can anyone tell me how Bentley did it? I'm attaching the portion of a ABD door which has the 3D opening angle constraint as an example of what I'm trying to do.

Tom Danner · Accepted Answer

Tom, 
 I believe you have run into limitation of an Auto component. Auto components want to maintain plane used during creation. A door leaf wants to maintain a vertical orientation. 
 You are trying to create an object that moves from a horizontal plane to a vertical plane. The only way I know that this can be achieved is with a Rigid Component. A rigid component will have an anchor point a normal direction and a rotation direction that can spin around the normal. 
 When you create rigid component, the normal would be along the hinge and rotation direction would be along the narrow part of door. 
 It will act like shown in video.

Steve Cocchi · Answer

Using the delivered DoorSingleFlush as an example, the swing is a component comprised of three linear elements, and the width of this component is defined as \DoorLeaf1DesignWidth so that it always matches the value of that property.