I m trying to create the roof cricket shown in this image in revit.
Revit roof cricket.
The main roof is a standard sloped roof that slopes down to the roof cricket roof which i made as a separate roof.
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My two favorite approaches to creating a flat roof cricket in revit are either creating an adaptive component or modifying the sub elements of the roof.
Align one edge of the roof to the reference plane 4 copy the roof paste it in the same place.
Eric wing dives into flat roofs first showing how to pitch insulation to roof drains add crickets and warp roofs to fit sloped framing.
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Any ideas on how this can be achieved.
The cricket would direct the rain to pass the chimney on either side.
From flat roofs to fun free form roofs and everything in between hip gable mansard dutch hip combination and gambrel.
Additionally people get extremely creative when it comes to the crickets on flat roofs.
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I know some of you may be thinking that the modify sub elements tool is like voodoo black magic.
How do you construct a roof cricket.
It will place in the new construction phase 5 edit the footprint of the new roof.
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This course covers the topic of adding roofs roof framing and detailing with revit.
This would be done simply as a small dormer roof joined to the main roof.
From there i modified the cricket s sub elements in order to get the cricket to perform correctly.
I made a roof with a roof cricket made up of two roofs.
For example on the back side of a chimney as the roof slopes down on it.
Summary 1 unjoin the roof 2 create a reference plane 1 away from the edge of the second roof 3 edit the footprint of the unjoined roof.
