Revit Roof Dormer Cut

Create the walls and roof elements that make up the dormer.

Revit roof dormer cut.

After adding a dormer cut an opening for it through the roof. Set view to level 2. You can make a roof cut into an existing roof using component model in place. To create a dormer roof we first need to start with the smaller roof portion of the dormer.

This tutorial explains the process to create a gable dormer in revit. Welcome to the revit forum. First a work plane needs to be decided upon. Well for some reason i can not get it to work.

Type 1 dormers have sidewalls. Valid boundaries are highlighted. It has been a while since i had no clue why something would not work but a while back i had one. You can model this in any of the 3 primary roof modelling methods but in the example i have opted to use the roof by extrusion tool.

Roof overhang should be set to 2 0. Edit the dormer opening to reflect the roof modification as per figure 9. Or is there a way round that. Adding a dormer which will involve cutting out a hole in the roof using the dormer tool which leaves a hole in the existing phase view of the roof as well as the new construction view.

Change the visual style back to shaded to show the finished item as in. Type 2 dormers do not have sidewalls and the dormer roof springs from the eaves of the main roof steps for type 1 dormers. In the end i fixed it with generic models with voids but that is not the way it is supposed to be and a pita. The dormer cut has been left selected to show the modification.

Select the dormer cut and then select the edit dormer opening from the ribbon as shown in figure 8. Use the join roof tool to join the dormer roof to the primary roof. Draw a building with a gable roof. Valid boundaries are a joined roof or its bottom face a side face of a wall a bottom face of a floor an edge of the roof to be cut or a model line on the face of the roof to be cut.

Create a void. Attach walls to roof 3. Dormers in revit you should be able to draw two kinds of dormers.