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Please Note: Our Discussion forums have moved. If you would like to discuss this article or any aspect of Revit, please do so at www.forums.revit.biz We will be more than pleased to help you with ANY Revit query. One question that comes up time and again is the issue of creating your own door families. So here is an overview of the process required to create your own custom door- in this particular case I’m going to make a side screen as well. Rather than producing a step-by-step tutorial, here I will just briefly list (and describe) the fundamental steps that I am going through. For a more detailed discussion of the concepts behind custom components, please refer to the 17-part series. First of all I’m going to use the “Metric Door” template as a starting point…. 
With any custom door that I make, I first of all change the thickness of the sample piece of wall included within the template. I’ll change it to 300mm thick. I gained this tip from the External Trainer who undertook our in-house Revit training. He stated that it makes the component behave properly when inserted into a variety of wall thicknesses… 
The default door template comes complete with a basic architrave around the wall opening….. 
I’m going to delete both of these because I just want a nice, simple plain opening in the wall as a starting point… 
For this example my door and side screen are going to be to fixed dimensions- so I am not going to include any parameters in this family at all. This will make the whole process very quick and neat. Here is a scan of a hand-dimensioned drawing of what I am going to create… 
What I do now is to modify the opening in the wall so that it is the correct overally size to accommodate the door and screen. In the image below you will see that I’ve selected the opening (NOTE: The Opening and NOT the Wall)- and Edited this opening- which has put me into Sketch Mode…. 
So I really am at a true starting point now. I have a piece of wall, with a simple opening which has the overall dimensions to accept my door, screen and frame… 
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