Modify overhead door

Modify overhead door

twallVCXPH
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Modify overhead door

twallVCXPH
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I have an existing situation with a very unique overhead door.  It's stainless steel in two sections, essentially a bifold but folding up rather than to the side.  Has a 4" frame.  

 

Graphically it's ok to not be perfect.  But I can't even adjust where the door panel is within the wall.  It's in the middle of the wall not on the back side like a standard overhead.  I thought I could put in a standard bifold and just rotate it to be horizontal but oddly Revit doesn't have a standard bifold.  

 

I'm new to Revit, having moved over from AutoCAD Architecture.  How do I modify a standard door to the form I need it?

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ToanDN
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It is easy enough to model it from scratch.  Add a ref plane aligned to the face of the wall and model the door based on that ref plane, not the default center of wall plane.

 

However, if you had a standard bi-fold (which you don't), then do this:

- Remove the door frame, save as a new family (A)

- Create a new door family from the Door template (B)

- Load (A) in (B) and rotate it on an elevation

- Model frame and any other components in (B)

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barthbradley
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A Hangar Door? Why don't you keep it simple? Create the door geometry with Curtain Wall Mullions and Panels and embed the Curtain Wall into the Host Wall.  Use Detail Lines to create Swing Lines in the Views you need to show them.   

Hangar Door 0.png 

Hangar Door 1.png

 

...if you want the Curtain Wall Panel centered in the Host Wall, then zero out the Offset.

 

Hangar Door 2.png

 

...one more for you:  

 

Hangar Door 4.png

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