@designerjulpiper wrote:
Your response was lame. I have the same problem, I cannot find a particular door, yes I can add one but it’s for my class, so I can’t just add any door, it has to be the revit door. So your response doesn’t apply to all.
And I have found that I have been taught to add the door, then the sidelines separately, those are two different items that you “load from family libraries”. Hope that helps.
There are several of us on this forum that have been using Revit professionally, on a daily basis, to produce documentation for actual construction projects, for a living, for a decade or more.
You know what we get here sometimes? We get a gym teacher or something telling us he's been assigned to teach Revit, and he's got beginner level questions. So I don't think you ought to come on here and tell us, "The teacher of my class said so!"
For example...if you are going to purchase sidelites separately, like from a window supplier, then you would probably use separate families for them. But it is common that a door/hardware supplier offers complete single units that have sidelites already built in, and in this case you would probably want to modify or create a door family that represents what you're actually going to use. Now you can nest families within each other, for example to create a door with windows on each side that will still schedule properly, so you only have to place the one family but the result is as if you had placed both, but that's a bit higher up on the learning curve, and you need to know how that works before you can decide if that's the best solution or not.
Did your teacher tell you any of that? Or did he just lay down an iron rule that if you want a door with sidelites you should load separate families? And when you say it has to be THE revit door...do you mean you've been told to use a specific door family that's missing from your library, or do you mean that you're supposed to use A revit door family, as opposed to a generic model family, or as opposed to just drawing in a door with the annotation/detailing tools? Because the suggestion to add one is talking about finding or making a revit door family that suits. So it applies.
