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Custom Door Panel

ArcAngel
Participant
I cannot create a custom door panel in ACAD V9 - I know how to do it - but the "CUSTOM PANEL" box does not APPEAR in the dialogue window.

I downloaded the latest 9 Library.PLA today but that didn't solve the problem.

I even went back to V8.1 but it didn't show there either.

Carlo
AC4.5 - AC 25 (User since 1992)
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Gerald Hoffman
Advocate
Are you looking for a 2D symbol of your custom door? I have never seen one either. I select the custom door panel option and then type in the name in the door panel type. You do have to remember the exact name that you saved it as though.
Gerald Hoffman
“The simplification of anything is always sensational” GKC
Archicad 4.55 - 27-6000 USA
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TomWaltz
Participant
Which door object are you trying to place the custom panel in?
Tom Waltz
ArcAngel
Participant
I'm trying to insert it in the basic D1 (interior wood/metal), although I've tried everything - including a garage door!

The custom panel option just ain't there (see screenhot)

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Carlo
AC4.5 - AC 25 (User since 1992)
Anonymous
Not applicable
Try the SE library. I don't think the custom option has ever been in the standard AC9 library? But I might be wrong.
ArcAngel
Participant
None of the tutorials mention the SE library and the one from Iron Insights is based on the 8.1 library. See: http://www.graphisoft.com/community/envisions/03.11.jtburk.html
Carlo
AC4.5 - AC 25 (User since 1992)
TomWaltz
Participant
Tom wrote:
Try the SE library. I don't think the custom option has ever been in the standard AC9 library? But I might be wrong.
It is. I still use the standard library and use custom panels all the time.

I cannot say about the original library AC9 came with, though, which I know did have some different things in it.
Tom Waltz
Anonymous
Not applicable
TomWaltz wrote:
I still use the standard library and use custom panels all the time.
How strange? The standard AC9 library that I have doesn't have any custom panel options? Maybe just the US version has them...
Petros Ioannou
Booster
Tom wrote:
How strange? The standard AC9 library that I have doesn't have any custom panel options? Maybe just the US version has them...

AFAIK it is only available in the US AC9 library

Petros
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ArcAngel
Participant
Petros wrote:
Tom wrote:
How strange? The standard AC9 library that I have doesn't have any custom panel options? Maybe just the US version has them...

AFAIK it is only available in the US AC9 library

Petros
Is there a macro that can be copied into the International Library?

Carlo
Carlo
AC4.5 - AC 25 (User since 1992)