Video: Place Doors

In part 6 of the tutorial, you load a door family, change the door type, place a door, and change its orientation.

This video demonstrates the following:

1. Load door families.
2. Use the Type Selector to change door types.
3. Place doors in the model.
4. Use the space bar to change the swing of the door before placing the door.
5. Use the flip controls to change the orientation of the door after placing it.

Note: This video was recorded using Revit LT 2018. When performing the procedures, you may notice minor differences in functionality and user interface.

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Transcript

Since doors are placed in walls, they are considered hosted components, and the component families that define specific door types can be stored in an external library. To use a particular door type in the project, its family must first be loaded into the project.

Once loaded, the door types in that family can be used throughout the project and no connection to the library file is needed. To load a family from a library, click the Insert tab and then click Load Family. In the Load Family dialog, navigate to a location where the family files are stored, select the families you want to load, and then click Open. In this case, window families are being loaded into the project at the same time as the door families. To place doors from the loaded families, first, open the plan view for the entry level. On the Properties palette for this view, you may want to set the Underlay parameter to None so that the walls from the level below are not displayed. To begin placing the doors, select the Door tool, and move the cursor over a wall.

Note that the door swing inside to outside is context sensitive to the side of the wall closest to the cursor. Move the cursor close to the other side of the wall to make the door flip. Temporary dimensions are also displayed to aid in placement. In the Project Settings, you can specify that these dimensions measure to the edges of doors, if that is preferred. To place a different door type, use the Type Selector on the Properties palette. Here, instead of the double door that was placed for the entry, you select a single door to be placed heading out to the balcony.

When placing a door, you can press the space bar to flip it from left hand to right hand opening, and vice versa. The Type Selector is again used to change to an interior single door, and additional doors are added to the plan. The doors are automatically tagged in sequential numbers because the Tag on Placement option is selected on in the contextual tab of the ribbon. If this option is cleared, the doors would be placed without the tags.

Finally, the lower level floor plan is opened, and additional doors are placed according to the design intent.