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ledgewood33

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I am looking for a door family the shows the door sitting in the wall in the correct location? revit door sit centered in the wall whether its a stud wall or a wall that has a stone veneer or brick veneer with a stud. I would like the door to sit in its proper location of the stud portion of the compound wall (stone-stud) and I am not sure how to do that or if anyone has done that already

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Your definition of proper location and mine may be different ... especially depending on frame type.  And do you mean the door or the frame?

I modified our door families building them around a frame offset parameter.

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my apologies, I am refering to the entire assembly. if I have a compound wall (stone-ply-stud-gyp) I would like the door at a minimum to sit within the stud portion of that compound wall. right now the doors seem to center themselves on the entire wall assembly. I believe the door and door frame should sit under the stud framing and not the stone portion of the wall.

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You have to re-build the family as I did.   Typically, I like to start with a reference plane well off the wall with a setback dimension (like 12") off the face of the wall.  Then I add all the model components around this ref plane and end by setting the setback parameter to something more logical,

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