Revit How To Add A Roof

To create a dormer model required walls and additional roof.

Revit how to add a roof.

Use it to extend the dormer roof to the main roof. Use join unjoin roof tool. Creates a roof using the building footprint to define its boundaries. 9 join roofs add opening to create dormer.

This video demonstrates the following. On the properties palette set the underlay value to 01 store floor. Display a floor plan view or a reflected ceiling plan view. Add a dormer to a roof and use the dormer opening tool to cut the opening for it.

The revit interface is a bit unclear about constructing a flat roof but no roof is truly flat and creating a flat roof in revit allows the designer to annotate the roof without having to deal with the issues associated with the modeled hips and valleys of a low slope roof. Move the walls to the dormer. Create the roof opening and finish the dormer. On the draw panel click pick walls.

Draw a flat roof. Click architecture tabbuild panelroof drop down roof by footprint. In this tutorial i add a roof to my house on auto. This video is part of a series and does not show you different types of roofs for revit 2011.

If you try to add a roof on the lowest level a dialog prompts you to move it to a higher level. Select the wall type and constraints for a dormer that will be added to a roof. This tool is located in the modify tab. Then follow these 2 steps.

Click architecture tab roof drop down roof by footprint.