Revit Roof Profile

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Revit roof profile. Draw one half of your gambrel roof profile working from the roof midpoint ridgeline out towards the eaves. Best way to approach a gambrel style roof in revit is by using the roof by extrusion tool. Creating a section view to view the details of the metal deck. Revit places a reference plane at the specified offset.

Creating your floor and cantilevers. First of all you will need to ensure you have a fascia profile family loaded into your project. Adjust the metal deck profile shape and layers to better conform to documentation requirements. We created a sloped roof and a roof slab below it.

Using the edit button for the structure parameter to open the edit assembly dialog and make adjustments to the. Using the reference plane you can control the position of the extruded roof in relation to a level. I say again do not create a closed loop revit will not accept it for this type of sketch. We will learn how to create two profile family and use them to define our fascia.

Once your structural deck profile is loaded in modify the top layer to be concrete and enter the thickness of your slab the full slab depth including the decking not just the topping. We are going to use the roof slab as a gutter. When you are happy with your profile sketch go ahead and hit the green cross. So in this tutorial we will close it edges using roof fascia.

Now that you have created your revit structural decking floor type you are ready to create your floor. If you are new to revit i would advise you check out this monster revit roof tutorial post first so you are completely familiar with how to model architectural roofs in revit before undertaking the various eaves detail items that are described below. For static design and calculations use lindabs own developed software lindab structuraldesigner which you will find on lindabs website. Sketch the profile of the roof as an open loop.

As before select roof by extrusion pick your plane and assign your reference level. In the previous tutorial we learn about creating roof in revit model. A classic roof profile that suites most applications. How to create a roof fascia in revit.

In the above image the profile you see 2 is the complete profile for this roof. Create a new family. Creating a new deck type by duplicating an existing deck type and changing its profile.