Revit How To Add A Roof

Create the roof opening and finish the dormer.

Revit how to add a roof. Use it to extend the dormer roof to the main roof. Use join unjoin roof tool. Click architecture tabbuild panelroof drop down roof by footprint. Create the dormer roof and join it to the main roof.

The revit interface is a bit unclear about constructing a flat roof but no roof is truly flat and creating a flat roof in revit allows the designer to annotate the roof without having to deal with the issues associated with the modeled hips and valleys of a low slope roof. This video was recorded using revit 2018. Creates a roof using the building footprint to define its boundaries. Then follow these 2 steps.

When using a. Add a dormer to a roof and use the dormer opening tool to cut the opening for it. If you try to add a roof on the lowest level a dialog prompts you to move it to a higher level. To create a dormer model required walls and additional roof.

Select the wall type and constraints for a dormer that will be added to a roof. Display a floor plan view or a reflected ceiling plan view. This video is part of a series and does not show you different types of roofs for revit 2011. This tool is located in the modify tab.

This video demonstrates the following. Draw a flat roof. Move the walls to the dormer. Click architecture tab roof drop down roof by footprint.

On the draw panel click pick walls.