Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2012: No Experience Required

Placing Doors and Windows

Adding doors and windows is one of the easiest things You'll do in Revit Architecture. Finding the correct door or window becomes a bit harder. Creating a custom door or window takes time and patience. In this section, we'll focus on adding these items to the model. Chapter 17, “Creating Families,” will drill down into the specifics of creating these custom families.

Adding Doors

Placing a door in Revit Architecture can seem annoying and unnecessarily tedious at first. But like anything else in Revit, once you get the method down, You'll find your groove. Follow these steps:

1. Either continue working in your current model, or go to www.sybex.com/go/revit2012ner and navigate to the file called NER-04.rvt. The model is ...