Ex 2-2 Lake Cabin Doors

Exercise 2-2: Doors

In this exercise you will add doors to your cabin floor plan.

Open Lake Cabin.rvt created in exercise 2-1.

Placing doors:

Click on the Door tool under the Basics tab in the Design Bar. (Figure 2-8)

Notice that the Options Bar has changed to show options related to Doors. Next we will modify those settings.

The Type Selector indicates the door style, width & height. Clicking the down arrow to the right lists all the doors loaded into the current project. The default template project that we started from has several sizes for a single flush door. Notice that the there are two standard heights in the list. The 80” (6’-8”) doors are the standard residential height and the 84” (7’-0”) doors are the standard commercial door height.

Change the type selector to Sgl Flush: 36” x 80”.

Move your cursor over a wall and position the door as shown in Figure 2-10. Notice that the swing of the door changes depending on what side of the wall your cursor is. (Figure 2-10)

Click to place the door. Revit automatically trims the wall.

While the door is still selected, click on the change swing (control arrows) symbol to make the door swing against the wall.

Revit allows you to continue inserting doors until you select a different tool from the toolbar or design bar.

Insert the doors into the bedrooms as shown in Figure 2-1. The exact position is not important in this exercise.

Change the Type Selector to Sgl Flush: 30” x 80”.

Insert a door into the bathroom.

Deleting doors:

Next you will learn how to delete a door when needed. This process will work for most objects (i.e., walls, windows, text, etc.) in Revit.

Insert a door between the two bedrooms.

Click on the Modify tool on the Design Bar. (Figure 2-11)
Tip: Any time you press the Esc key Revit reverts to Modify.

Click on the door you just inserted and press the Delete key on your keyboard.

Save your project.

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