Place Doors and Windows in Walls

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1. Open the Floor Plan of the storey you are working on (e.g. Level 0).
2. Place a door:
   1. On the Architecture tab, click Door (shortcut DR).
   2. Pick a door type from the Type Selector at the top of Properties.
   3. Hover over a wall — doors can only be hosted in walls; the cursor shows a preview.
   4. Press Spacebar before clicking to flip the swing side (hand).
   5. Click to place. Move to the inside/outside of the wall line to control which way it opens (facing).
3. Fine-tune the position:
   1. Select the door and edit the temporary dimensions to set an exact distance from a wall end or corner.
   2. Use the two flip arrows on the selected door to change hand and facing after placement.
4. Place a window:
   1. On the Architecture tab, click Window (shortcut WN).
   2. Choose a type in the Type Selector, hover over a wall, and click to place.
   3. In Properties, set Sill Height (e.g. 900 mm); the Head Height updates from sill + window height.
5. Copy openings along a wall:
   1. Select the door or window and use Copy (shortcut CO), with Multiple ticked in the Options Bar.
   2. Pick a base point and click along the same wall — each copy stays hosted in the wall.
   3. For evenly spaced repeats, use Array (shortcut AR) with Group and Associate unticked.
6. Verify in other views:
   • Open a 3D view and an Elevation to confirm sill/head heights read correctly.
   • Check that no opening lands on a wall end or overlaps another opening (Revit will warn).

Note: Doors and windows are wall-hosted families — if you later move, rotate, or redraw the host wall, every opening moves with it, which is why you never model openings as separate geometry.

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• New for 2026 — first taught in BIM + Computational Workflow 2026.