Hollow Metal Door Frame?

[m_cahoon14336]

MY WEEKEND PROJECT!
I need a wood door in a hollow metal frame? The door needs to be a
1-3/4" x 3'-0" x 7'-0". The frame needs to have 2" jambs and a 4" head. The door / frame will be used in an exterior masonry wall, therefore the frame will need to be set in 3" from the exterior face of brick. I can not get use to revit doors in plan view that do not have door frames, especially in cmu and brick exterior walls.
I would like to learn the mechanics of making doors, frames and door families. You know, give a guy a door, and he only has one door, but teach him to make a door, and he has doors forever. I have spent a few hours with this already, without much success. Could someone step me thru this process and help me with this?

[beegee]

Weeell, firstly theres a very good tutorial on this - "Creating a Door Family "

Once you're been through that you can either build your family from scratch for the practice and experience, or else take an existing family and modify its frames to what you need.

[sbrown]

heres mine

[Dean Camlin]

A while ago I posted several door/H.M. frame combinations as "inset" doors on the RUGI site. I called them inset because the frames don't wrap around the wall opening & thus the rough wall opening is locked to the outside edge of the frame, the way doors are often built into masonry walls.

[Jarod]

Has anyone talked to Revit on why the Doors don't have frames out of the box with the software? This just seems crazy to me that I have to go into the door family and add them...

[Scott D Davis]

its not 'standard practice' in the US to show door frames in plan. (im not agreeing or disagreeing with this) Some have said the UK doors have frames, which can be opened and converted to imperial.

Others have done doors with frames on Rugi.

[Jarod]

It sure would be nice to see in section?!?! and I guess that is where I'm the most dumb founded that it doesn't show...

[PaulB]

Would it be possible to add things like a frame as a visibility parameter so you can choose when to display

[beegee]

Many of the AUS door families already have the frames set to dispaly only in medium or fine detail views.

[Scott D Davis]

Most definately, thanks to 6.1 and the on/off parameter. You could set it up to control frames by instance, or by type. Instance would give you individual control of frames on doors, while by type, would turn frames on or off for every door of that type in the model.