How To Cut A Roof In Revit

Click modify tab geometry panel cut drop down cut geometry.

How to cut a roof in revit.

In the drawing area select the roof. Create the walls and roof elements that make up the dormer. Before you cut your boards you ll need to measure the width of your building and calculate the exact length of each rafter. If you re framing a gable roof on a new house or building a shed or even a doghouse with a gable roof you ll need to cut a number of roof rafters.

Share and vote on ideas for future product releases. Use the join roof tool to join the dormer roof to the primary roof. 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. The roof rafters provide integral structural support to the roof.

On the properties palette for rafter cut select plumb cut two cut plumb or two cut square. Load the family into the project and place it. Open the revit family with unattached voids and click create tab properties panel family category and parameters. For two cut plumb and two cut square specify a value for fascia depth between zero and the thickness of the roof.

Check out the full thing. An option would be to cut hole in the roof is to use roof voids the following way. Visit revit products forum. After creating a roof change the style of the eaves by specifying the rafter cut.

Architecture tabopening panel structure tabopening panel use the by face option when you want the. Create an in place family roof at choosing void extrusion ideally in a section view draw the contourline of the void using the pick line option on the base of the inside edge of the roof determine the length of the void ideally in 3d view at wireframe mode extend this in order to intersect the. After adding a dormer cut an opening for it through the roof. Add vertical or by face opening this is part of the revit pure basics package.

Select the object to be cut.