Revit Trim Roof

When you select an element to be trimmed the cursor position indicates the part of the element to retain.

Revit trim roof. The bad thing about extruded roofs is the fact you can t follow along with the footprint of your building the good thing is we can do something about that the objective of this video is to go to the plan view we will then create a void where our walls jag in and out this is going to allow revit to cut the roof properly in plan to get started jump into your revit roofs. Get these project files and all advanced 1h courses. Https youtu be noznjnfia2u walls in revit. Use the trim and extend tools to trim or extend one or more elements to a boundary defined by the same element type.

Click by face or vertical. Architecture tabopening panel structure tabopening panel use the by face option when you want the. You can also extend non parallel elements to form a corner or trim them to form a corner if they intersect. Valid boundaries are a joined roof or its bottom face a side face of a wall a bottom face of a floor an edge of the roof to be cut or a model line on the face of the roof to be cut.

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. You can cut openings in the faces of these elements or you can select the entire element to make a vertical cut. In this video i show you how to attach the walls in revit to the roof above them. In this example side faces of walls and joined faces of the roof were selected.

Note that you do not need to trim the sketch lines to have a valid boundary.