You may have noticed that even after assigning a custom Profile to a Door to add a glazed panel to the Door, that there is no change to the graphics when viewing the Door in “plan” (Top view direction) in any of the out-of-the-box Display Representation Sets, That is because these use one of the “plan” Display Representations for Doors (Plan, Plan High Detail, Plan Low Detail, Plan Screened, Reflected or Reflected Screened), and the Panel component in these is 2D graphics representing the panel width and depth (overall Door width only, in Plan Low Detail) that is not tied to the 3D representation where the glazing is shown.
In my work, I have never needed to indicate glazing in a Door Panel at the typical scales used for plan views (1/16″ = 1′-0″ to 1/4″ = 1′-0″). But if you do have a need for that, you can use a custom display block to add graphics to represent a glazed panel in plan views.
Before we dive into creating the block and assigning it to the Door Style, you need to…
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