Joining Roofs In Revit

The wall must be attached to the target roof and the target roof must be a footprint roof.

Joining roofs in revit.

Revit part 1 architecture 2010 sloping eyebrow dormer cadclip. The default is plumb cut as we have seen in the previous images. You can join roofs to other roofs or walls or unjoin them if they were previously joined. Revit gives us three options.

The simplest way to start introducing complex roofs into your revit model is by using the rofo by face tool. There is very little to describe here but i will give a brief overview of the workflow. The wall must be attached to the target roof and the target roof must be a footprint roof. Then click the green tick to finalise it now we can begin the process to join roofs in revit.

You can set an overhang on roofs created with pick walls. 5 activate overhang on picked walls roofs. Select each boundary line and set the value in properties or in option bar. You can join roofs to other roofs or walls or unjoin them if they were previously joined.

You can join a roof to the top face of another roof and the wall below that roof if you select the wall as the target. Rafter cut additional options in revit have to do with the termination of the rafters at the eaves. We are around the back side of the building now select this tool in the geometry tab called join unjoin roof. Create your desired complex roof surface using massing tools.

Use pick walls if you want the roof to automatically adjust when walls are moved.