Want a sloped structure or a sloped insulation in your flat roof.
Revit roof variable thickness not workign.
By default the whole roof will be sloped.
Set variable material for sloped insulation this is part of the revit pure basics package.
I have a balcony floor with multiple jogs and i d like for heights of all those jogs to fall along the slope and not have to independently calculate the height of each jog.
For more information about the edit assembly dialog see compound structure.
The entry can be blank if the thickness varies.
The problem is that whenever i use a slope arrow revit doesn t vary the thickness.
The variable layer thickness parameter of roofs and floors affects the shape editing tools in the following ways.
On the properties palette click edit type.
The insulation thickness must be at least as thick as the vertical slope else you will receive a warning.
It seems like it would be really easy for this to work with a slope arrow within the floor but that doesn t.
Click ok until all of the dialogs are closed.
This is typically a read only value unless a shape edit has been applied and its type contains a variable layer.
In the value box of the structure property click edit.
When there is a variable thickness layer the top face of the roof or floor slopes and the bottom stays in a horizontal plane creating.
Select the floor or roof.
8 set variable material for sloped insulation.
In the edit assembly dialog specify the material for layers and the thickness of those layers.
Next to the desired layer of the roof or floor in the assembly select the variable check box.
If you ve started exploring revit s floor tool you may have noticed that by default the floor elements that revit creates are composed of individual layers of uniform thickness in the image below we see a typical floor element shown in section.
Hi i am trying to model a non rectangular single slope roof with a variable thickness.
The variable thickness parameter column will contain empty check boxes next to layers where variable thickness can be enabled.
Check out the full thing.
I appears that the variable thickness in floors and roofs only works with modifying sub elements in the floor.
The next step i tried was making a plan roof and modifying the sub elements but since my roof is not rectangular there a lot of points in the middle that i have to manually adjust the height.
When the value is writable it can be used to set a uniform thickness of the roof.
When there is no variable thickness layer the whole roof or floor slopes and maintains constant thickness between parallel top and bottom faces.
The variable thickness parameter column will contain empty check boxes next to layers where variable thickness can be enabled.
Revit variable layers for roofs and floors.
