How To Use Roof By Face In Revit 2016

Want to create a flat roof.

How to use roof by face in revit 2016. I came across this post about switching lighting families from wall hosted to face based and with a little tweak made it work for casework. Drag the shape handles to extend the roof. Open a view that displays the mass. This guide provides the answers to the most common roof problems beginners face with revit.

There is a generic model with a sat file inside. We are going to use the roof slab as a gutter. You cannot select faces from different masses for the same roof. Click massing site tabmodel by face panel roof by face.

In the option bar make sure defines slope is deactivated before drawing the boundary. Converting wall based casework to face based in revit recently there was a need for a custom piece of revit family casework which was inadvertently made using a wall based family template. We created a sloped roof and a roof slab below it. Subscribe to the repro products channel.

Create roofs on any non vertical faces of a mass using the roof by face tool. In the type. Looking forward to see what you come up with. To create a roof from mass faces.

So in this tutorial we will close it edges using roof fascia. We will learn how to create two profile family and use them to define our fascia. When you select the roof face roof shape handles display. Create a new family.

In the drawing area select the roof face. To create a roof from mass faces open a view that displays the mass. Roofs created using the roof by face tool do not automatically update if you change the mass face. In the previous tutorial we learn about creating roof in revit model.

You can also watch the video tutorial below if you prefer. Shape handles are available for all non horizontal side surfaces. Shape handles are not available for surfaces created by openings placed in roof faces. Roofs created using the roof by face tool do not automatically update if you change the mass face.

You cannot select faces from different masses for the same roof. Create roofs on any non vertical faces of a mass using the roof by face tool. The one on the left is just the sat file and the one on the right is the roof by face example done with out of the box revit s tools. After converting mass faces to a roof you can use shape handles to extend the roof boundaries.