Doors shown closed in 3d

[jkipfer]

How do you get doors to show as open in 3d views? It's open in plan view but the 3d shows the same door closed.

Thanks

[cbaze]

Just open family editor and rotate the door extrusion...

or download a door with a parameter to open and close it

[STHRevit]

Most likely the plan view is displaying the swing as a detail/symbolic line with the door extrusion visibility set to not show in plan.

As mentioned, simply rotate the door extrusion to the angle you want and it will show in your 3d view.

[truevis]

Using the word "simply" is such advice may not be appropriate. Another harsher/quicker way is to turn off the Door>Panel subcategory.

[patricks]

Look up posts in here for creating a door family with a panel swing instance parameter. Normally this is done with a reference LINE and an angle instance parameter to control the angle of the door swing symbolic lines in plan, but it could also be used to control the actual panel extrusion.

Note that you'll need to create the door panel extrusion on the vertical work plane of the reference line instead of on the normal host face reference plane. This is especially true if the door panel has any sort of panel patterns, lines, glass, etc.

[bingles7]

A Beginner asked: -

Where is - Door > Panel Category is situated & where it can b accessed & modified.?

[greg.mcdowell]

Here's an example of what you might do. I hobbled this together from various sources, most of them originating here on AUGI. As always, a work in progress.

[patricks]

A Beginner asked: -

Where is - Door > Panel Category is situated & where it can b accessed & modified.?

There is a Panel subcategory under Doors in both Manage > Settings > Object Styles (global project settings) or under Visibility/Graphics overrides (per-view override settings).

When creating the family, if it's started using the Door template, the solid object representing the door panel can (and should) be set to the Panel subcategory in the Element Properties for that particular object.

[dhurtubise]

I use parameters to control the opening in 2D and 3D. That way i can change them independantly.

[bingles7]

To Patricks:
Got it sir, thanks for explaining it at Object & Family Level.