topic Re: make garage door work like actual doors in north america? in Libraries & objects

make garage door work like actual doors in north america?

heathldesign — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 22:57:17 GMT

hey ho, has anyone got any suggestions on how to make garage door jambs and casing actually work the way we build them here in N America? i can get it to work more or less in plan, just not in elevations and certainly not in 3D. i've used the custom closure to get skin 1 to look like a 2x jamb that overlaps the door slab, but i can't control the material and can't get casings to work at all.

Re: make garage door work like actual doors in north america?

Laszlo Nagy — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 20:36:13 GMT

A few screenshots explaining the exact 2D and 3D representation you would like to achieve would help.

Re: make garage door work like actual doors in north america?

heathldesign — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 03:25:38 GMT

here you go.

Re: make garage door work like actual doors in north america?

Keckelhoff — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:18:22 GMT

Bumping this up - I am struggling with the same issue. Why did they remove these options???

Re: make garage door work like actual doors in north america?

SeaGeoff — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:34:45 GMT

For our friends outside of North America, our residential garage doors are typically overhead sectional units that sit flush to the inside of the wall when closed. Another weakness of the current Archicad garage doors is lack of built-in options for the sectional panels. I am always creating custom panels even when they are just simple flat panels. (All the Archicad door types should have better parametric panels (leafs).)

Here are couple garage doors illustrations for reference.

Re: make garage door work like actual doors in north america?

rm — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 22:39:56 GMT

Apparently you have not been around long enough to know that Graphisoft has NEVER put out a realistic door and window library for the that US market that actually represents US building standards. Not to mention the pure lack of effort in testing library parts to see if all parameters actually reflect dimensional accuracy or material accuracy. The US library flat out is a joke and Graphisoft will never put the resources to it to make it robust.

Re: make garage door work like actual doors in north america?

torben_wadlinger — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 10:39:47 GMT

Just have a brief look here: https://hbp.hoermann.com/de/portal

Hörmann has the best and most detailed library (Archicad and Revit) for every kind of door (on the requested product page scroll down to BIM Data and download the library.

Re: make garage door work like actual doors in north america?

SeaGeoff — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 02:25:57 GMT

I have indeed been around long enough Robert. That’s why I switched to the INT library years ago and have convinced numerous North American firms to do the same. But the sad reality is neither the INT or USA doors & windows are good enough to faithfully represent the units we commonly specify. The new global library was billed not only as a way to collaborate across regions, but also a way for Graphisoft to speed up library development. We have yet to see that.