Revit Roof Different Eave Heights

A simple run down of the different eave or soffit settings effect your roofs.

Revit roof different eave heights. I cant seem to get the roof to display correctly i understand that the hips will need to be at 45 degrees but for arguments sake it just needs to be whatever it is to work. The roof with the lower eave height would require a roof slope pitch greater that the roof with the higher eave height. After creating a roof you can adjust the height of the eaves. If we look at this in 3d it looks like a normal roof and our eave lines are now matched up properly.

Again it will show us the amount of drop and then. So there you have it that s how you can adjust your eave lines. I have got the roof to look something like this but the hip ends dont finish in the corner as i want see red circles. In order to close off the end of the soffit i will create a new fascia sweep but i will host it to the soffit not to the roof eave or rake.

T his is the two foot overhang with the adjusted bearing height specifically. This video goes over the steps to clean up two different roof elements. While in sketch mode click modify roofs edit footprint tabtools panel align eaves. To recap we do that with a roof man and we simply go in to edit footprint and align the eaves.

Click finish edit mode. Select a roof eave line and then select an option for adjusting eave properties. Fascia tool to sweep along eave and the rake which still leaves me with an open end. Continue reading to view the tutorial.

On the properties palette specify a value for offset from roof base or plate offset from base. Use the align eaves tool to realign eave heights of different boundary lines of a roof. To keep the ridge line centered on the structure and have 2 eaves at different heights with identical overhangs you would have to have 2 different roof slopes. While in sketch mode select a slope defining boundary line.

Dimensions display near the eaves to indicate their height. Adjust height changes the plate height from roof base or offset from roof. Hi guys i am drawing a house but the walls will have 2 different eaves widths 350 and 450.