Wavy Roof Revit

You cannot select faces from different masses for the same roof.

Wavy roof revit.

The waviness generally does not cause a roof to leak but it may be architecturally unsightly or occasionally can indicate a problem. Let s take a look at some of the typical causes of a wavy shingles especially after a new roof is installed. Create roofs on any non vertical faces of a mass using the roof by face tool. 1 activate the shell tool and choose the extruded geometry method with detailed input method.

2 in the 3d window click on a surface or click three points to define an input plane onto which to draw the profile. Roofs may become wavy over time or they may have been built that way to start with. Causes of a wavy roof. To create a roof from mass faces open a view that displays the mass.

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. Click massing site tabmodel by face panel roof by face. Most that become wavy do so over time. Use it to extend the dormer roof to the main roof.

In the type. 3 draw the desired profile in this case a wavy. 9 join roofs add opening to create dormer. Extract plan export a 2d dwg floor plan from your revit model for.

A roof with a wavy look to it can be caused by a number of reasons but the problem may be short lived. To create a dormer model required walls and additional roof. Using a freeform shape imported from other programs horse in this example we will generate a smart roof in autodesk revit. How to create a freeform roof in revit.

This tool is located in the modify tab.