Autodesk revit free download families catalogue for steel products including steel roofing steel walling guttering purlins metal fascia.
Revit purlins curved roof.
See attached revit 7 0.
Purlins following curved roof.
The purlins would be square to the roof slope bottom edge same as top edge slope of glulam frames.
We have recently started work on a new project which requires us to model some purlins onto a curved roof surface.
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Quick demo of having purlins follow the curve of a roof.
Quick demo of having purlins follow the curve of a roof.
The simplest way to create a beam that attaches itself and follows the curve of a roof above is by using the beam draw tools.
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This is the method that should be used once the roof geometry design is finalised and not likely to change again.
There was talk on the forums of creating families that have the always vertical turned off and are not hosted to a level as purlins.