Revit Cut Extruded Roof

After adding a dormer cut an opening for it through the roof.

Revit cut extruded roof.

If you d like to learn everything about revit roofs you may be interested in my revit roofs masterclass course. Modelling roofs is no different. In revit there are multiple ways to approach a modelling exercise. We will delve into great detail on each later on but to start let s look at the standard roof by footprint workflow.

Open a plan view or an elevation view in which you can see the dormer roof and the attached walls. If the roof is extruded open an elevation view. For the purposes of this tutorial i am going to use the following simple building. In this video we explore an alternate method of creating a roof in revit.

Create the walls and roof elements that make up the dormer. If the roof is extruded open an elevation view. Family and parameters family category select roofs or whichever type requires a cut provide a name for the void select extrusion or alternative from forms draw profile for the extrusion and provide depth value properties for the extrusion identity data select void use cut geometry tool to cut the void. There are 3 primary sub tools that you can use to model roofs in revit roof by footprint roof by extrusion and roof by face.

Revit makes both vertical and horizontal cuts in the roof. Join eric wing for an in depth discussion in this video trimming an extruded roof part of building roofs with revit. By using our dwg we find the slopes of two roof lines and their elevations for the rafter cut a simple two line. In this revit architecture tutorial i show you how to create an extruded roof form using the roof by extrusion tool.

This is going to allow revit to cut the roof properly in plan.