Revit Roof Plan View

There are many situations when you need to show the outline or boundary of overhead elements on your plan views.

Revit roof plan view.

Display a floor plan view or a reflected ceiling plan view. So in order to create that a dash roof plan what i can do is come over here to my view tab click here and then come into my floorplan view. I guess it s the autocad mentality that is so hard to shake at first. Select one or more levels for which you want to create a plan view.

In the view properties expand the underlay drop down and select the level on which the roof was created to display as an underlay. Click architecture tabbuild panelroof drop down roof by footprint. Anyway over time i ve seen and heard plenty of suggestions on what a user should or should not do to expose missing elements but the following top 10 reasons is the most comprehensive check list i ve seen. People who are new to revit are always having issues seeing everything in a project view.

If you try to add a roof on the lowest level a dialog prompts you to move it to a higher level. Revit displays the modify linework contextual ribbon. Open the plan view of the level in which you want to see the roof line. For type select a view type from the list or click edit type to modify an existing view type or create a new view type.

Select the linework tool in the view panel on the home ribbon. If you choose not to move the roof to a different level revit notifies you. Click view tab create panel plan views drop down and then click floor plan reflected ceiling plan structural plan in the new plan dialog. This makes the roof line visible in the plan view but the lines appear as solid lines.

Some typical scenarios are the include the outline of the perimeter of the roof the outline of an entrance canopy roof light positions etc.