How To Make A Porch Roof In Revit

To change the slope definition of a line select the line and on the Properties palette click Defines Roof Slope.

How to make a porch roof in revit. Use JoinUnjoin Roof tool. It looks to me that you are trying to model the roof framing as it would be built in the. Select the extruded roof and click Modify Roofs tab Opening panel Vertical.

Create a Dormer Opening. In both cases use offset from base option 450 for upper roof. Revit - Roof with Gabled Front Porch.

Join Brian Myers for an in-depth discussion in this video Designing a front porch and building the porch structure part of Revit Architecture. With one roof option use Join Roof tool to attach lower roof to the walls underneath the upper roof. Multi roof option is more flexible I think you can extend lower roof under the upper one to any point you want more pieces though.

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Ive been trying to get to grips with roofs and how to model them - which is a task in itself. Reference planes define the boundary of the roof. On top of that it doesnt make any sense because you havent put into any context.

OMG Thanks so much. As before select roof by extrusion pick your plane and assign your reference level. Located in the Architecture tab this tool is used to create a dormer shaped hole in the main roof.