Hello, everybody, I’m doing my first steps with Sketchup and now I have a problem where I found no way. I have a cabinet where the door can be opened by clicking. But how can I now dynamically set whether the door should open to the left or right? [T%C3%BCrAnschlag] MFG

I thought about this a bit - and it’s a tough one! For a door such as you have pictured, I would give it dynamic open/close capabilities by setting its axis on one of the corners on the hinged side, then using an “OnClick” action such as “animate(RotZ,90,0)” (you might need -90,0"), but that won’t work if you also have a “Hinged: Left/Right” option. I’d approach it with two doors! Used the “Hinged: Left/Right” option to determine which door is visible (using the “Hidden” attribute and some logic. Give them axis on their hinged side, then use the “OnClick” action to animate a custom variable of the enclosing component - call it something like “Open_Angle” - animate it 0,90, then derive the RotZ for each actual door from the “Open_Angle” attribute. You might have to go through some trial and error to get both doors to swing correctly. Hope this helps.

Hello sjdorst, I would just like to move the axes position, but that won’t work with Sketchup. But the idea of hiding the 2 door was very helpful. [T%C3%BCrAnschlag] Unterschrank_Tueranschlag.skp (126,1 KB) Thanks

That solution came to me as well as I was falling asleep last night! I thought to add it this morning. But - Lo and Behold! - you beat me to it! :smiley_cat:

Caixa de armario aerio.skp (1.1 MB) Hello, I’m new here, I need to make a door that can open both to the left and to the right. watch this example, Profile - pcmoor - SketchUp Community still, it is not possible to reproduce. could you do it step by step? Thank you very much in advance

Hi Gerson, I fixed your component, you need to have two components, one nested in the other, so best to use a “swing” container and then place door, handle, hinges… within this, I hope to post a video soon (day or two) with possible better method and some sketches Caixa de armario aerio 2.skp (182.1 KB) best Philip

Hello, Philip A video explaining this would be of great help. Enjoying! would there be any way to block the component, to prevent the user from exploding?

Important to note SIZE-Reduction also! Nino

Hi Philip, I tried to recreate a component with a selectable right or left swing similar to your very helpful ‘reverse swing.skp’ example. I couldn’t get the door to flip using the negative value in LenY. Looking deeper I could see the door was inside the swing component. You say ‘door is reversed using a wrapped door with a swing movement’, what do you mean by wrapped door and swing movement? Many thanks Toby

Door dynamic open left or right side?

SketchUp Dynamic Components

pcmoor July 28, 2018, 7:11am 4

just to show that it is possible to do it without hidden elements, door is reversed using a wrapped door within a swing movement by changing leny to a negative value and moving position and rotation sign

reverse swing.skp (55.1 KB)

Swinging door

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Door dynamic open left or right side?

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