Revit How To Add Door Handle

Hover over your door leaf and then click to place your handle into position.

Revit how to add door handle.

Add geometry so that the sketch of the geometry is aligned to the reference planes. Creating the door panel. Create a new revit family use metric door rft as your. Label the dimension as an instance parameter.

It will have a simple panel with no glazing. Click the pin icon to unpin the mullion and then press delete. Add reference planes to the family. This door family will have solid and void forms and you will be introduced to symbolic lines and visibility control.

Highlight the mullion under the door and click to display its pin icon. 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. To add realism to 3d views and renderings it can be a smart move to add handles and hinges to your door family.

Add a dimension to the reference planes. The door swing will be customizable with an angle parameter. Use external families instead of modeling them directly in the main door family. For the reference planes verify that the is reference value is other than not a reference.

Of course if you were doing this for real you would probably want some parametric control over the position of the handle. We will start with a very simple door in this tutorial and add more accessories in later revit exercise. This way you can use the same hardware in multiple families. 8 add external families for hardware.

Your door handle family should now be on the end of your cursor ready for placement. To add shape handles to a component family you must.