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Think adding a door to the curtain wall is similar to adding a door to a wall? Absolutely not~~! This is
definitely a You cant do it if you dont know the trick topic. I am going to walk you through the trick to
add a door to the curtain wall. It doesnt matter if it is an exterior or interior door, the concept is the
same.

A curtain wall door is actually a curtain wall panel. Instead of adding a door to the curtain wall with the
Door tool, we are swapping out the glass with a curtain wall door. Yes! It is a totally different concept,
who would have thought of replacing a pane of glass for a door!? But the interesting part is once the
curtain wall door is placed in the model, Revit reads the curtain wall door as a door in the Door First Name
Schedule and in Visibility Graphics (VG). However, a curtain wall door can never be replaced by a
regular door and vice versa. To summarize the concept, the curtain wall door is a curtain wall panel that Email
pretends to be a door.

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** The grid does not necessary be extended full height or full length. For example, you can delete
segments of unwanted grid line by selecting them using the TAB key from the keyboard. In the image
below, I have removed the vertical grid line above the door.

Add the door | Hover your mouse pointer over the panel of glass where the door will be. Hit the TAB
key on your keyboard until the panel of glass is selected. Go to Properties, from the Type Selector
menu, scroll down until you see the curtain wall door, select the door to swap out the glass panel.

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Dont see any door from the Type Selector menu? Open up the Door family folder in the Content
Library and load it into your project. The curtain wall door family should name something like Curtain
Wall Dbl Glass.rfa, Curtain Wall Sgl Glass.rfa. You can also build your own curtain wall door using the
Door-Curtain Wall.rft family file or load your firms custom made curtain wall door family.

Resize the door | If you select the door, you will see the door size is grey out in the Properties menu.
Door size can only be adjusted by moving the curtain wall grid. To change the door size, hover the
mouse pointer over the Curtain Grid line. Drag the grid to resize the door.
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Remove the door | To remove the door, select the curtain wall door. Go to Properties, from the Type
Selector menu, select back the Curtain Wall Panel to swap out the door.

Hope this post clears up some of your frustration with curtain wall door. Enjoy!

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May 13, 2014 (http://learning-revit.com/adding-a-door-to-curtain-wall/#comment-94293)

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Awesome post.

June 30, 2014 (http://learning-revit.com/adding-a-door-to-curtain-wall/#comment-116645)

JESSE MITCHELL

Thank you so much, I looked all over Revit City, the official Autodesk Forums, and youtube to find this
info and no one had an answer. Thank you.

March 26, 2015 (http://learning-revit.com/adding-a-door-to-curtain-wall/#comment-225746)

JOSHUA

Perfect solution to the problem of creating door in curtain wall. Thanks a lot.

May 4, 2015 (http://learning-revit.com/adding-a-door-to-curtain-wall/#comment-226561)

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I appreciate your enthusiastic articles.

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September 25, 2015 (http://learning-revit.com/adding-a-door-to-curtain-wall/#comment-230114)

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Pretty! This was an extremely wonderful post. Thank you for providing these details.
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SD

Followed you to the point where you said Add the door.
I cannot select an individual panel in my curtain wall to change it.
I think it may have been the way I made my curtain wall.
Anyway, something to keep in mind. I will keep trying.

August 3, 2016 (http://learning-revit.com/adding-a-door-to-curtain-wall/#comment-269066)

Z

in the Add the door section, you should also state that you need to unpin the panel of glass.

February 21, 2017 (http://learning-revit.com/adding-a-door-to-curtain-wall/#comment-305819)

NATALIA (HTTP://THENZDESIGN.COM)

Thank you

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