Revit Irregular Roofs

Revit roof slope can seem complicated at first glance but by learning a few critical features you can create any roof shape you desire.

Revit irregular roofs.

Use it to extend the dormer roof to the main roof. To do this method you need to select the roof and edit the roof footprint. Whether you want a double gable roof with 6 pyramid shaped dormers or a simple gambrel roof the basics remain the same. I then angled one of the walls in plan view as shown on the floor plan.

I wanted to create an irregular skillion sloped roof see attached image. Changing slope angle and using slope arrow. Then follow these 2 steps. To create a dormer model required walls and additional roof.

Creating a roof with different eave heights you can create a roof with slope defined lines at different elevations by joining 2 separate roofs. See hd version of video tutorial here. Learn the basic modeling for 18 different roof types and variations. I will not discuss much about this for now.

Revit roof tutorial and free file download. Download the working file for free to see mo. The roof however stayed rectangular. Mass are quite easy to make but using this method might be require a lot of works.

9 join roofs add opening to create dormer. The following example shows a roof that you can create in revit using a slope arrow. Use join unjoin roof tool. If your design is quite simple you will not want to spend to much time on your roof.

I then sketched the roof profile and extruded it.