To Move a Door Within a Wall

Use this procedure to move one or more doors within a wall by offsetting the doors from a reference location.

This feature allows you to align doors within the thickness of a wall. You can set an offset distance from any point within a wall, or center the doors between the faces of a wall. You can select doors, windows, or openings, and reposition them at the same time. If you select more than one object, you can select only one side to offset.

1. Select the doors you want to move.
2. Click Door tabAnchor panelReposition Within Wall.

   A marker indicates the current location within the opening. This may be the center of the frame, the interior face of the frame, or the exterior face of the frame.

3. Specify how to measure the offset:

   If you want to…	Then…
   center the doors between the faces of the wall	select a point near the center of the door jamb.
   offset the doors from the interior or exterior face	select a point on the side of the face you want to measure from.

4. Select a point to measure to.
5. Specify the offset distance from the selected point:

   If you want to…	Then…
   center the doors between the faces of the wall	use the Midpoint osnap to select the midpoint of the end of the wall.
   move the doors to the reference point	enter 0.
   move the doors a specified distance	enter a value for the offset distance.
   specify the distance as a measurement between two points	select the two points measuring the distance.