Revit Roof Crickets
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Revit roof crickets. I e if the roof surface. This thread is archived. Similar to a lot of elements in revit there are many ways to go about flat roofs. Jun 15 2017 explore anibal carbonell s board roof cricket on pinterest.
This course covers the topic of adding roofs roof framing and detailing with revit. How do you construct a roof cricket. Eric wing dives into flat roofs first showing how to pitch insulation to roof drains add crickets and warp roofs to fit sloped framing. Roof surface roof surface slope cricket width cricket length cricket panel slope cricket valley slope cricket angle distance between points 3 and 4 cricket angle 2 the manufactured slope of the cricket panel.
This would be done simply as a small dormer roof joined to the main roof. For example on the back side of a chimney as the roof slopes down on it. Thanks edit for broken link. The industry rule of thumb is that the cricket panel slope should be twice that of the roof surface slope.
The cricket would direct the rain to pass the chimney on either side. It will place in the new construction phase 5 edit the footprint of the new roof. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. My two favorite approaches to creating a flat roof cricket in revit are either creating an adaptive component or modifying the sub elements of the roof.
Additionally people get extremely creative when it comes to the crickets on flat roofs. I m trying to create the roof cricket shown in this image in revit. Many thanks kind regards ian. How can i create this type of roof cricket.
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