Revit Tutorial - Create A Customizable Door Plan Swing

Learn how to create a door plan swing family with a customizable angle parameter. The 2D plan swing of a door family should be created in a separate nested family. Create reference lines to assign angular dimensions. Create a masking region matching the reference lines. Create the arc line using "symbolic lines". Use an "if" statement formula to avoid angles below 1 degree.

You can use this family to add an opening angle to the door 3D panel.

This family is unbreakable! Even if you use problematic angles like 270, the family will keep working.

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[Jesterish]

Wherein something you expect to be simple turns out to be wildly convoluted, and with extra hoops to jump through....

Thank you very much for sharing!

[AussieBIMGuru]

I just did a video last week on this topic also, great work! It's a really helpful/lesser known technique so glad to see others are also sharing it.

[MrDrenahmeti]

Trying it in RVT23, for anyone else that was frustrated with the Masking not working (saw some comments here) for angles of more than 90 degrees, try to TAB select all the reference planes simultaneously and just pick them with 1 click. Worked like a charm for me.

[omarpaint]

Thanks! Great video! Could you explain what to do if you get problems with the 270 angle?

[neahchandel]

The actual angle testing didn't work for any angle. It says remove constraints. What is the problem?

[nicolapeccin]

Neat. I could never figure out how to get that parametric rotation to work.

[wasanalasam]

thank you very much, clear explanation.

[gabrielepiacentini]

Many thanks for the useful video. Just be careful in the case you want your door to show the frame as if the door swing angle was set to anything bigger than 90° there would be a conflict between the door panel and the frame itself. Food for thoughts.

[iftekharkhan]

What about if there r more than one panel???

[gddraftsman]

the problem is i cant load the family in the door template family

[gabrielepiacentini]

How do you add hardware (i.e. handle) to that panel and get it to rotate with the panel itself?Is that possible without having to add thousands reference lines and parameters to the model?

[ilMalto]

Hi! What if i want to be able to close the door and open it again without loosing the detali-line arc?

[kokemolina]

Hello, the masking region of the plan swing shows transparent in the revit model (the plan swing is nested in the main door family but i didnt use the 3d panel for the floor plan) Do you know why is it happening?

[fahmihassen]

yes clean Revit thank you and subscribed for more

[schussbunny]

Is there a way to do this without using a Masking Region, and using only Symbolic Lines for the rotating door panel? If not, how to I get the Masking Region to not show up on my RCP? Using Revit 2022.

[ilyaasadia]

So if we need to show the elevations and sections do we close the doors? and then on the floorplan, it's closed? I want it to have the ability to open at any angle but in elevations it should remain closed

[karemkkkkk]

thank you .. can you learn us how to creat sliding door with running gear ! :)

[Hong-ig]

Thank you for your video, however I met a problem when I tried to load plan-swing into my door family, it did not shown. I can make sure I follow every step of yours. I would be appreciated If you help me to solve this problem out.

[trdesignsd]

Hi Dear i tried as u said but the ultimate result is while i place the door on the wall, the wall is not cutting or not Boolean just the wall is passing through the door in project file.
can u please help me.
from Learner.

[CrlsE]

Hi, When I load it to the door family, the masked region outline is invisible, are there some additional settings in order to fix that? Thanks for the tutorial