Revit Roof Profile

Creating your floor and cantilevers.

Revit roof profile.

We will learn how to create two profile family and use them to define our fascia. This will instruct revit to proceed and create the 3d geometry for your roof form. Made of polyester coated metal sheet for exact color range in your country please visit your local lindab website. Revit places a reference plane at the specified offset.

Adjust the metal deck profile shape and layers to better conform to documentation requirements. For static design and calculations use lindabs own developed software lindab structuraldesigner which you will find on lindabs website. First of all you will need to ensure you have a fascia profile family loaded into your project. When you are happy with your profile sketch go ahead and hit the green cross.

Creating a new deck type by duplicating an existing deck type and changing its profile. Create a new family. Once your structural deck profile is loaded in modify the top layer to be concrete and enter the thickness of your slab the full slab depth including the decking not just the topping. In the above image the profile you see 2 is the complete profile for this roof.

Best way to approach a gambrel style roof in revit is by using the roof by extrusion tool. Using the edit button for the structure parameter to open the edit assembly dialog and make adjustments to the. Sketch the profile of the roof as an open loop. How to create a roof fascia in revit.

Now that you have created your revit structural decking floor type you are ready to create your floor. Creating a section view to view the details of the metal deck. I say again do not create a closed loop revit will not accept it for this type of sketch. So in this tutorial we will close it edges using roof fascia.

In the previous tutorial we learn about creating roof in revit model. To raise or lower the roof from the reference level specify a value for offset. A classic roof profile that suites most applications. As before select roof by extrusion pick your plane and assign your reference level.

If you are new to revit i would advise you check out this monster revit roof tutorial post first so you are completely familiar with how to model architectural roofs in revit before undertaking the various eaves detail items that are described below. We are going to use the roof slab as a gutter. Draw one half of your gambrel roof profile working from the roof midpoint ridgeline out towards the eaves.