This week’s collection is a special one… Can you believe it’s our 50th collection of free Revit content!? We’ve had a blast creating them for you, and this one is all about revolving doors. We’ve got a selection of manual revolving doors from manufacturers CJ Rush, International Revolving Door and Horton Automatics. They’re specifically designed to be used in curtain wall systems in Revit and come in three- and four-wing models.

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Revolving Doors

Revolving doors are not your regular old doors — they come in all shapes and sizes and can either be automatic or manually operated. They can have a different number of wings depending on the size and how many people need to shuffle through them. Common applications will include commercial and industrial buildings.

Pretty much any large and busy building will use revolving doors, since their main benefit is optimizing the movement of people. Often described as the most comical of all doors, they are also usually set within a glass facade or other small curtain wall framing.

IRD Comet

From manufacturer IRD (International Revolving Door) we have two families covering the three-wing and four-wing Comet manual door range. Both families have over 40 types driven by a type catalog. The types are defined by the standard internal door diameters and material options available from the manufacturer.

CJ Rush 500 Series

The collection also contains a four-wing manual door family from manufacturer CJ Rush covering the 500 Series revolving door. It includes 10 types which account for two default door sizes and five material finishes.

Horton EasyFlow

Lastly, from manufacturer Horton, we have a three- and four-wing model from their EasyFlow range. Both families have over 10 types driven by type catalog to suit variations in size and material finish.

Family Makeup

There are a couple of things that we’re keen to highlight about these Revit families. First, they have been created as curtain wall doors to be used in Revit curtain wall systems. As such, their behavior and method of insertion are different from common Revit doors. You have to use a curtain wall system, then select the default glazed panel and swap it out for the door and type of your choosing.

In a curtain wall door system, the height and width are reporting parameters. Therefore, the height is actually determined by the height of the curtain wall panel. The width of this panel also affects the family. If the width of the panel is less than the outside diameter of the door/drum, then the door will automatically offset itself from the curtain wall.

Second, while all of the families have types to match standard/stock manufacturer sizes and materials, it’s actually very easy to create your own custom type to suit your projects! Materials, height, inside and outside diameters, bearing dimensions and canopy height can all be amended, as well as the internal panel/wing itself.

All the families mentioned today have industry-standard subcategories for 3D and 2D components to give the end user full control over their project visuals. We also utilize 2D geometry in plan view to facilitate a faster workflow.

Why Curtain Wall Doors?

We always try to improve on whatever Revit content is already out there, even our own previous work. When we first looked into revolving doors, we saw some families by others that had been created as standard Revit Doors. Consequently, this means they can only be dropped into a wall, NOT a curtain wall. Some were even created as Generic Models…

I tend to think that the majority of revolving doors that end up in buildings are used in glass facades. Even some that are utilized in solid walls still have a small curtain wall framing around them. So it made sense to us to create our revolving door families as Curtain Wall Doors. Does it make sense to you, or would you have taken a different approach? Shoot us an email at support@kinship.io and let us know your thoughts!

Get the free collection here.

• 3-wing manual revolving door from Horton Automatics.
• 4-wing manual revolving door from Horton Automatics.
• 3-wing manual revolving door from IRD.
• 4-wing manual revolving door from IRD.
• 4-wing manual revolving door from CJ Rush.