Revit Roof Rafter Cut

After creating a roof change the style of the eaves by specifying the rafter cut.

Revit roof rafter cut.

To create the desired cut you can use an in place void family on the high roof. There are three options a plumb cut. This agacad sneakpeek shows the automated framing made possible by our roof framing tools for revit. In the drawing area select the roof.

If your fascia depth is selected to be same or more than your roof assembly depth then you ll get a perfect square. Before you cut your boards you ll need to measure the width of your building and calculate the exact length of each rafter. Solution by design only roof edges that are slope defining are affected by the rafter cut. This will allow you to also define fascia depth.

When you placed fascia and set the rafter cut of the roof to two cut plumb or two cut square in the roof properties only the slope defining edge was affected. Rafter cut additional options in revit have to do with the termination of the rafters at the eaves. The roof rafters provide integral structural support to the roof. You created a roof that has only one slope defining side.

In this example the basic roof has 8. Tutorial on roof construction modeling in revit. B two cut plumb. The default is plumb cut as we have seen in the previous images.

When you cut the rafters you ll need to make 3 separate cuts. On the properties palette for rafter cut select plumb cut two cut plumb or two cut square. The ridge cut also called the plumb cut at the top of the rafter the birdsmouth cut. Download free tools4bim dock to get started http.

Revit gives us three options. Also gives you fascia depth option.