About Openings

Openings are for creating concept doors, windows, and openings.

Concept openings are useful in the concept design phase when architects know they want an opening, but are unsure of the exact specifications for the opening. You can use an opening to create an opening in a planar:

  • Wall of a building mass
  • Internal wall
  • External wall
When you place a curtain wall on the same planar wall as an opening, the curtain wall function retains the opening and places the curtain wall around the opening.

Buildings Space Planning supports creating these openings:

  • Concept doors
  • Concept windows
  • Openings



To implement each type of opening, the system must download its catalog. While the downloading is automatic, only a user who logs in with the Leader role can initiate each catalog download. Thereafter, a user with the Designer or Leader role can create an opening.