Door and window layout and design in Revit - Inserting door families

Tutorial resources

These downloadable resources will be used to complete this tutorial:

Step-by-step guide

Load door families into a project, and choose door sizes from the Type Selector.

Open the project DW-Arch_Place Doors_RVT2021.rvt. It opens in the Level 1 plan view.
In the Architecture tab > Build panel, click Door.
In the Modify | Place Door tab > Mode panel, click Load Family.

In the Revit interface, the open Level 1 plan view for this example, and in the Modify | Place Door tab, Mode panel, Load Family selected.

In the Load Family dialog box, navigate to the Revit library Doors folder and select Door-Double-Flush_Panel.rfa.
Click Open.

In the Load Family dialog box, in the Revit library Doors folder, the door family selected for this example, with Open selected.

In the Specify Types dialog box, the type selected for this example, and OK selected.

In the Properties palette, information about the selected door, with Edit Type selected.

The Type Properties dialog box shows a list of Type Parameters for the selected door.

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