Revit Cut Roof With Reference Plane

To cut a beam at a wall create a reference plane in the plane of the wall where you want the cut to occur.

Revit cut roof with reference plane. Naming reference planes makes it easier to track their. Open the 3d view and click architecture tab work plane panel set. In the work plane dialog select the reference plane name you just created and click ok. For example use cut geometry to cut a column to a certain height or to stop a beam at a wall.

And cannot for the life of me figure out a way to cut the intersecting beam. I have actually selected the left hand reference plane you can see that i have also named it roof start. Having trouble cutting trimming two arched cambered cellular beams where they intersect see attached screenshot. This method is worth learning so when plane moves everything goes with it.

Use the cut geometry tool to cut a structural member with a plane. Graphic display options in the family environment 2013. Detailed review of reference planes beam and roof systems. Select the reference plane.

Here i am using 2 reference planes to control the start and end of the roof extrusion. Go to end view of roof elevation face on to new named ref plane select roof by extrusion the select new named ref plane from drop box. 1 create another named ref plane in plan view so as to draw the roof profile roughly at end of roof image 1 2. Split face divides the face of an element into regions for application of different materials.

Non cuttable reference plane structural post navigation. Various methods to upgrade your office rft files to 2013. Click modify tabgeometry panelcut drop down cut geometry. Select the reference plane and on the properties palette enter a name for the plane.

Select the beam to be cut. Use cut geometry and click the element and then click the plane. Split element cuts an element such as a wall or line at a selected point. Cut geometry will not allow me to select the alternately intersecting beam as cut plane and i have found no way of creating a curved reference plane in order to.

I just tested it again on revit 2013 and it does work. Have tried opening by face etc. That is the vertical reference planes on the left and right hand side of the image.