Revit Roof Rafter Cut

Tutorial on roof construction modeling in revit.

Revit roof rafter cut.

The roof rafters provide integral structural support to the roof. Download free tools4bim dock to get started http. On the properties palette for rafter cut select plumb cut two cut plumb or two cut square. In the drawing area select the roof.

This agacad sneakpeek shows the automated framing made possible by our roof framing tools for revit. C two cut square. You created a roof that has only one slope defining side. After creating a roof change the style of the eaves by specifying the rafter cut.

The ridge cut also called the plumb cut at the top of the rafter the birdsmouth cut. This will allow you to also define fascia depth. If your fascia depth is selected to be same or more than your roof assembly depth then you ll get a perfect square. Solution by design only roof edges that are slope defining are affected by the rafter cut.

Rafter cut additional options in revit have to do with the termination of the rafters at the eaves. When you cut the rafters you ll need to make 3 separate cuts. There are three options a plumb cut. Revit gives us three options.

Also gives you fascia depth option. To create the desired cut you can use an in place void family on the high roof. The default is plumb cut as we have seen in the previous images. When you placed fascia and set the rafter cut of the roof to two cut plumb or two cut square in the roof properties only the slope defining edge was affected.

For two cut plumb and two cut square specify a value for fascia depth between zero and the thickness of the roof. In this example the basic roof has 8.