How wide is a turbolift doorway?

[sojourner]

I have decided to do a bridge layout for a ship I am designing in the fan art forum. Thing is I am not sure how wide a standard turbolift doorway is, seeing as that's probably the best thing to base my scale off of. Hmmm, door height would be useful too.

This is a rough sketch, nothing is to scale and the seating is all from 3d warehouse. The rust color panels are turbolift/doors. The big orange curve is going to be a large status display with some foldout seating for guests underneath. everything is just very roughly blocked in.

 

[Albertese]

I'm sure there is allowance for such things to vary a bit form ship class to ship class. Seeing as how you're doing your own thing, just measure a regular sized door in your house and use that as a guide. All the doors in Trek always seemed pretty much standard issue.

Alternately you might be able to Google search the working blueprints from TNG or Voyager and just read the dimensions on the prints. You might be able to search for them on this very board, as I'm fairly sure this is where I saw such drawings (though it may have been DrexFiles.)

And in response to your sig line: That goes without saying.

--Alex

 

[Timo]

One might argue that all turbolifts in Starfleet are standardized and interchangeable between ships - and indeed capable of moving between ships, at least big ones, when these are hard-docked to each other. After all, we've seen other signs of standardization, say, torpedoes that stay externally the same for two centuries or more. And we've basically seen the one turbolift set rotated from a Star Trek spinoff show set to another, occasionally rebuilt but apparently almost invariably done to a few fixed specs so that existing doorways and set elements could be used. That is, the lift cab might be of whichever diameter, but the doorway would stay the same.

As for what the doorway size really is... Beats me. But two-part pocket doors, with each panel so narrow that it doesn't detract too much from the curvature of the cab wall even though apparently perfectly flat, might not leave much room for variation.

TOS: http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x03hd/wherenomanhasgonebeforehd032.jpg

TNG: http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s1/1x01/farpoint1_046.jpg

VOY: http://voy.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/2x06/twisted149.jpg

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Bernard Guignard]

I'd suggest you look at what normal doors are dimensioned at and make a best guess from there.

 

[Judy Waxhorn]

I use the Generic Person included with Sketchup for answering scaling questions.

When I redid my silkscreen line that's what I did... and again for my pad-printer worktable.

 

[Patrickivan]

Doesn't the old TOS handbook have the dimensions? I have it, but it's tagged and bagged for mould removal after receiving water damage...

--- It was the FJ manual I was talking about. I just dug it up... I know many aren't too keen on it, but it puts the TL at about 2 meters across.

 

[DrBashir]

According to the McMaster bridge blueprints the door is almost exactly 90 cm.

 

[Tiberius]

I'd say roughly three quarters of the width of those panels would be a good width for the doors.

BTW, that's an interesting bridge design. Looking forward to seeing it when it is more fleshed out.

 

[Sandoval]

Could you not find out how wide James Doohan was during The Undiscovered Country and subtract a couple of inches?