How do I make a decent looking Wall Section in Revit?

[Mike Sealander]

The out of the box doors in Revit are quite simplistic. We, as I'm sure others, have created our own, or have gotten content from Revitcity.com.
I've attached two door families for you, single door and double door. You can set the frame thickness, and the rough opening (the opening cut) is larger than the frame size.
As I have found, it's a godsend to eavesdrop on Aaron and others on this forum.
Best of luck.

[sbrown]

Hmm, the doors I sent, if the leaf is 3'-0" and the Frame width set to 2" you end up with a 3'-4" opening, the head is also adjustable to be 2" or 4" for masonry, ie a 7'-4" opening for CMU.

[happystan5678]

Here's my example of detailing in Revit.

Nice. Someday I'll get there.

[patricks]

I created a hollow-metal door and frame family several years ago. Basically what I did was take the OOTB Revit door family, deleted those trim pieces, and then added new reference planes beyond the door leaf reference planes to denote the rough opening size. Then I edited the opening in the wall in the family to lock to those new reference planes. For the HM frame I created sweeps with a profile shaped like the HM door frame which also have an adjustable width. It works perfectly for doors in masonry openings. And although not totally correct, we just use the same door families in stud walls and dimension to centerline of door.

[RafeRedmond]

Spend some time in the family editor, get to know and understand how a family is created and what drives the dimensions and other parameters. It is possible for you to achieve various sized cutouts in your wall (In the family editor, you can draw an opening while in elevation view, and that will determine what the rough opening is in the wall. Then you still can have your door be the correct size.