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In the previous tutorial, you have placed your walls. Now, we will placing doors and windows to our building. You will be introduced to instance parameters, so you can have your own family type.
Doors and windows are hosted components. It means you can only place them hosted to other component: wall. No walls, then no doors, no windows.

Placing your doors

Understanding Door Placement

Let’s continue our model. Open your 1st floor plan. We will place our door at location shown below.

Activate door tool from ribbon bar, home TAB. Select M_Single-Flush:0864×2134 as your door type from type selector. Click change element type to choose other door type.

Deactivate tag on placement from option bar. We don’t want the doors automatically tagged. We will place them later.
Move your mouse pointer around, away from walls. You will see your mouse pointer like this when it’s not find any walls, it can’t find it’s host. Now move your pointer to location shown before.

Now you can place your door. If your door orientation not match image above, press [space] to flip the door. Click your mouse to place it.

Now place all the remaining doors. Choose appropriate size if necessary. Very easy, right? I don’t think you’ll find difficulties in placing doors :)

Creating New Door Type

Now activate modify, pick one of the door. You will see temporary dimension to modify door placement. And also, flip symbol.

Try to click that flip symbol to flip the door. Similar to placing walls, sometimes it’s easier to place your door first, and fine tune it’s placement later.
Now select one door, any door that you want to change it’s size.

From contextual ribbon, select element properties>type properties.

Click duplicate on the dialog box that opened. Type ‘700×2100 mm’ when Revit ask for the type name. Click OK.
You just created a new type. Now, you have to change the dimension properties. Change the door height to 2100 and width to 700 in dimensions section.

Click OK to close the dialog box. See that the size of your door has changed. You also can see in contextual tab, it’s using your new door type.
Now we will load another door family. Activate door tool. From contextual tab, model section, click load family.

In the opened dialog box, choose M_Double-Glass 1.rfa  and M_Overhead-Rolling.rfa. You can pick multiple files by holding [crtl] and pick the file.
Place them at these locations.
 
Now, open your 2nd floor plan and place all these doors.

Let’s review our doors in our model. Open your 3D view by clicking the 3D View button.

Placing Windows

There is no difference between placing doors and windows. We will complete our model by placing these two types of window: M_Fixed: 0610×1830 mm and M_Fixed: 0915×1830mm. Feel free to use any other types of windows.
Here is my 1st floor windows.

And here is my 2nd floor windows.

Let’s check our 3D model now.

In next exercise, we will explore more about wall properties.

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