Revit How To Add Door Handle

Add a dimension to the reference planes.

Revit how to add door handle.

This way you can use the same hardware in multiple families. To add shape handles to a component family you must. The door will have a steel frame and will be adapted mostly for an interior use on drywall. In the load family dialog open the doors folder select any door family with curtain wall in its name and click open to load the family into the project.

It will have a simple panel with no glazing. Create a new revit family use metric door rft as your. Add reference planes to the family. The door swing will be customizable with an angle parameter.

This door family will have solid and void forms and you will be introduced to symbolic lines and visibility control. Use external families instead of modeling them directly in the main door family. This time we will create a door family. For the reference planes verify that the is reference value is other than not a reference.

Add geometry so that the sketch of the geometry is aligned to the reference planes. Click the pin icon to unpin the mullion and then press delete. Hover over your door leaf and then click to place your handle into position. Highlight the mullion under the door and click to display its pin icon.

We will start with a very simple door in this tutorial and add more accessories in later revit exercise. Of course if you were doing this for real you would probably want some parametric control over the position of the handle. Creating the door panel. Go ahead and choose component on the home tab.

It will include a simple handle lever hardware on both side of the panel with a customizable strike distance height. Your door handle family should now be on the end of your cursor ready for placement.