Doors and Windows

Doors and Windows

Revit makes adding doors and windows to your model a snap. The key thing to understand about windows and doors is that they're hosted by walls. Without a host wall, doors and windows can't exist in your model. Figure 4.13 shows a window hosted by a wall.

Figure 4.13: Example showing a window hosted by a wall

Windows and doors always stay in line with a wall; when the wall is moved or rotated, the windows and doors also move and rotate. Likewise, if a wall is copied, all hosted elements in the wall are copied. Like everything else in Revit, windows and doors are associated with a level in order to streamline the design process and remove obstacles to iteration by reducing the need to manually fix the model. Changing floor-to-floor heights will always keep your windows and doors in proper relation to the floor they belong to.

Windows and doors have specialized representations that are specific to the view in which they're placed. For example, in plan view, a door can be shown as open with an abstract door-swing graphic, whereas in elevation it appears closed and the door swing is shown as diagonal lines indicating the hinge side (see Figure 4.14). Given the fact that graphical symbology varies across the world, Revit is designed to allow you to represent these however you see fit; whether you want a door swing to be an arc or a straight line, or to be shown at all,...