Revit 2018 Trim Roof With Plane

To raise or lower the roof from the reference level specify a value for offset.

Revit 2018 trim roof with plane. Sketch the profile of the roof as an open loop. The bad thing about extruded roofs is the fact you can t follow along with the footprint of your building the good thing is we can do something about that the objective of this video is to go to the plan view we will then create a void where our walls jag in and out this is going to allow revit to cut the roof properly in plan to get started jump into your revit roofs. Create a reference plane in the plane of the wall where you want the cut to occur. Here i am using 2 reference planes to control the start and end of the roof extrusion.

This video goes over the steps to clean up two different roof elements. Gr grid re scale el elevation vr view range. 1 create another named ref plane in plan view so as to draw the roof profile roughly at end of roof image 1 2. Select the beam to be cut.

I have actually selected the left hand reference plane you can see that i have also named it roof start. Reference plane creates a reference plane using drawing tools. Select the reference plane. Naming reference planes makes it easier to track their.

Using the reference plane you can control the position of the extruded roof in relation to a level. Revit places a reference plane at the specified offset. That is the vertical reference planes on the left and right hand side of the image. Trim extend to corner trims or extend one or more elements to form a corner.

Go to end view of roof elevation face on to new named ref plane select roof by extrusion the select new named ref plane from drop box. This method is worth learning so when plane moves everything goes with it. Split element cuts an element such as a wall or line at a selected point. In this tutorial i show you how to model a roof garden or a green roof in revit.