Revit In Place Mass Roof

Revit for architectural design exam prep.

Revit in place mass roof.

This course covers the topic of adding roofs roof framing and detailing with revit. From flat roofs to fun free form roofs and everything in between hip gable mansard dutch hip combination and gambrel. Click massing site tab model by face panel roof by face. The axis can either be a model line or reference line.

Optional on the options bar specify the level of the roof. Eric wing dives into flat roofs first showing how to pitch insulation to roof drains add crickets and warp roofs to fit sloped framing. Create a roof from a mass face. Use open geometry in generic model families rather.

In week 1 we ll cover the key aspects of starting an architectural project from importing cad files to using massing tools and. After saving the family use the roof by face tool to place a roof on the nurb surfaces. Including placement planes sketches forms and modeling by face. The profile and the axis must be on the same work plane see figure 17.

Optional to create the roof from a single mass face click modify. Open a view that displays the mass. A revit architecture tutorial on the creation of in place mass objects. Get these project files and all advanced courses.

Please like this tutorial. Follow me on social. Video created by autodesk for the course autodesk certified professional. Drawing the profile in elevation is a viable method but when you need to do that for over 200 buildings you might as well do it in archicad 16 that does have this option.

In the type selector select a roof type. We don t do site massing anymore in revit because of this limitation unless the amount of context buildings are less then 10. Roof created on nurb surface note. When you are creating a generic model or mass family you can import a dwg or sat file containing nurb surfaces.

It doesn t have to be exactly the same for only the bottom surface needs to follow the roof bottom side.