Revit In Place Mass Roof

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Revit in place mass roof.

This course covers the topic of adding roofs roof framing and detailing with revit. Optional on the options bar specify the level of the roof. From flat roofs to fun free form roofs and everything in between hip gable mansard dutch hip combination and gambrel. Optional to create the roof from a single mass face click modify.

Drawing the profile in elevation is a viable method but when you need to do that for over 200 buildings you might as well do it in archicad 16 that does have this option. The profile and the axis must be on the same work plane see figure 17. Follow me on social. It doesn t have to be exactly the same for only the bottom surface needs to follow the roof bottom side.

Click massing site tab model by face panel roof by face. A revolve form is a mass created by turning a profile around an axis line. You need to hit the edit mass button then create a form sweep extrusion etc in the same place of the roof. Open a view that displays the mass.

In the type selector select a roof type. The axis can either be a model line or reference line. In week 1 we ll cover the key aspects of starting an architectural project from importing cad files to using massing tools and. Get these project files and all advanced courses.

You can create roofs on nurb non uniform rational b spline surfaces in generic model or mass families. When you are creating a generic model or mass family you can import a dwg or sat file containing nurb surfaces. Create a roof from a mass face. Roof created on nurb surface note.

A revit architecture tutorial on the creation of in place mass objects. Eric wing dives into flat roofs first showing how to pitch insulation to roof drains add crickets and warp roofs to fit sloped framing. We don t do site massing anymore in revit because of this limitation unless the amount of context buildings are less then 10. After saving the family use the roof by face tool to place a roof on the nurb surfaces.

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