WHERE CAN I FIND ADJUSTABLE BI-FOLDING DOORS?

[Anonymous]

HI, Where can I find adjustable bi-folding glazed door units for Revit, or how do I create one?

Please help

[Viveka_CD · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous

I see that you are a new member! Welcome to the Autodesk community! 

• Please search for bi-fold glazed doors in BIM Objects ( previously Autodesk Seek) 
• You can look for existing door families HERE
• Check out tutorials on Revit Content: All-in-One Revit Bi-Fold Door Family and Revit Parametric Folding Glass Doors
• You can check out other resources like Revitcity and arcat for  downloads

Please select the Accept as Solution button below if my post solves your issue or answers your question. Kudos welcome!

We look forward to your continued participation.

Regards,

[Sahay_R · Accepted solution]

You will also be able to find a vanilla bifold door in the OOTB Revit library. Best practice is to take an OOTB family and tweak it to make it what you want it to be. Open the family out of your library, save a copy (NEVER overwrite OOTB stuff!!) and examine it. Trust me - inspiration will follow, and you will be able to tweak it with the best of us. Any questions while you are in the process - there is more than enough skill and experience on this forum to get you out of any sort of hole.

Some pointers - 

1) You may need to edit the panels for glazing - select the panel and click on Edit Extrusion to do so. This will take you into sketch mode, where you can add the shape of the glazing and accept so that Revit creates geometry for the glazed panel

2) always always create Reference planes, constrain them with dimensions and parameters, and test them to see if they stay together. Then align and lock geometry to the reference planes. 

3) Never lock geometry to geometry - always lock it to reference planes (I learned that the hard way)

[Anonymous]

HI, Is the All-in-one Revit bi-fold door & parametric doors family, free to download? If so do you have a link to download, Thanks.  

[Anonymous]

Yes thanks, could you show me a path to the OOTB Revit library please? 

[chrisplyler]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Yes thanks, could you show me a path to the OOTB Revit library please? 

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We may need some guidance on how experienced with Revit you are, in order to tailor advice to suit you. The above request hints that you've just opened Revit for the first time and have zero training whatsoever. Is that right?

[Sahay_R]

On your machine - it should be at

C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Revit 2017

[Anonymous]

Yes, I want to create an adjustable bi-fold glazed door, but I have not edited Revit families before. 

[Anonymous]

okay thanks 

[barthbradley]

@Anonymous: I posted this a couple of weeks ago for someone else here on the forum. Should be of help you too. This one is operational from 0 to 90 degrees. The bi-fold is nested in it. 

[Anonymous]

Thanks 

[Viveka_CD]

Hi there @Anonymous

I just wanted to follow up here, any progress on this issue?
Please mark any posts that help with "Accept as Solution" and thanks! Kudos welcome.

[Anonymous]

Thanks a lot. I just clicked on the 2nd bullet point with hyperlink HERE and found the bifold-2 panel then I load to my project, easy pissy. Though I will have to make a new one from the scratch. but you save me time 🙂

[AdvancedBIMSystems]

https://sellfy.com/enricobulic

[barthbradley]

Nice.  Your work, @AdvancedBIMSystems? 

Out of curiosity: how big is that file? 

[AdvancedBIMSystems]

Hi Bradley,

Yes it's my work. The file is about 5.7 MB.

Cheers

[Anonymous]

The link to the bi-fold door download is broken. Is Autodesk not offering downloads from their site anymore? I do not have access to any libraries older than 2017 and need a 2-panel bi-fold door.

Thanks

[bimman02feb]

Autodesk needs it in the library.  They need everything in their library.  Revit is primarily for architecture, not model building components.