Have anyone worked on door Swing direction?

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I notice Dynamo is disabled while using Pyrevit. I dont know if thats normal? Have anyone made door swing to determine LH or RH?

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I’ve done quite a bit with door swings for our office. I also wrote the AUGI course on doors back in like 2009. Plenty of things to discuss on the whole subject. Where do you want to start?

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@ErikFrits @mangrove-art this one is for you !

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@Architekker will come back to you with my code. Just needs some translations to be useable for everyone.

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Sorry been out of town, busy month, I guess I need to do some studying how to get this stituated. I did use the Door Handeling set in dynamo, didnt work out too well.

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Issues you will run into:

  • Are all doors created with consistent swing direction? ie: Left = Latch To direction is up toward exterior? (If not, level of difficulty increased.)
  • Do all doors use room calculation point? Or do none of them use a room calculation point? Mixed? Better plan for mixed.
  • Using nested families? (You should.) Is the door swing a family or a bunch of dumb lines?
  • Going to specify handing for double doors as individual panels?
  • Need to manage door flipping and mirroring.
  • How are you identifying the keyed side of the door?

It can be done in pyRevit or Dynamo. But there are a lot of conditions to check and a lot of things that depend on how your door content is created. Or worst case and more typical - how badly have your users done in creating doors. I wrote a course for AUGI somewhere back in 2009 or 2010. No longer have a copy of that, but it became standard for a lot of offices.

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