Revit Cut Roofs

You can cut openings in the faces of these elements or you can select the entire element to make a vertical cut.

Revit cut roofs.

Cue the voices of an angelic choir with the reveal of your joined roof well done. Open the revit family with unattached voids and click create tab properties panel family category and parameters. Revit gives us three options. Click by face or vertical.

Use join unjoin roof tool. Architecture tabopening panel structure tabopening panel use the by face option when you want the. Revit roof slope can seem complicated at first glance but by learning a few critical features you can create any roof shape you desire. Select the object to be cut.

Depending on the size of your structure you will need to cut several or many more. Load the family into the project and place it. The number of rafters needed will be determined by the length of your roof. At this point you ve cut 1 roof rafter.

You now know how to join roofs in revit. Whether you want a double gable roof with 6 pyramid shaped dormers or a simple gambrel roof the basics remain the same. To create a dormer model required walls and additional roof. This tool is located in the modify tab.

Do the same for the other side copying doesn t work for some reason try it if you like and you ll see if it does work then revit likes you better than it likes me. 9 join roofs add opening to create dormer. Use one of the opening tools to cut a vertical or perpendicular opening in a roof floor or ceiling for example to accommodate a chimney. Click modify tab geometry panel cut drop down cut geometry.

In the family category and parameters dialog select cut with voids when loaded and click ok. Use it to extend the dormer roof to the main roof. Rafter cut additional options in revit have to do with the termination of the rafters at the eaves. See hd version of video tutorial here.

The default is plumb cut as we have seen in the previous images.