Revit Roof Profile

Draw one half of your gambrel roof profile working from the roof midpoint ridgeline out towards the eaves.

Revit roof profile.

We are going to use the roof slab as a gutter. This will instruct revit to proceed and create the 3d geometry for your roof form. We will learn how to create two profile family and use them to define our fascia. Made of polyester coated metal sheet for exact color range in your country please visit your local lindab website.

Creating a new deck type by duplicating an existing deck type and changing its profile. I say again do not create a closed loop revit will not accept it for this type of sketch. So in this tutorial we will close it edges using roof fascia. Now that you have created your revit structural decking floor type you are ready to create your floor.

Creating your floor and cantilevers. Adjust the metal deck profile shape and layers to better conform to documentation requirements. Once your structural deck profile is loaded in modify the top layer to be concrete and enter the thickness of your slab the full slab depth including the decking not just the topping. Revit places a reference plane at the specified offset.

Using the edit button for the structure parameter to open the edit assembly dialog and make adjustments to the. Create a new family. A classic roof profile that suites most applications. First of all you will need to ensure you have a fascia profile family loaded into your project.

When you are happy with your profile sketch go ahead and hit the green cross. We created a sloped roof and a roof slab below it. How to create a roof fascia in revit. This video demonstrates the following.

In the previous tutorial we learn about creating roof in revit model. As before select roof by extrusion pick your plane and assign your reference level. Sketch the profile of the roof as an open loop. If you are new to revit i would advise you check out this monster revit roof tutorial post first so you are completely familiar with how to model architectural roofs in revit before undertaking the various eaves detail items that are described below.

In the above image the profile you see 2 is the complete profile for this roof. Using the reference plane you can control the position of the extruded roof in relation to a level. For static design and calculations use lindabs own developed software lindab structuraldesigner which you will find on lindabs website.