Revit Cut Roof Geometry

To enable this open the revit family with unattached voids and click create tab properties panel family category and parameters.

Revit cut roof geometry.

Open the revit family with unattached voids and click create tab properties panel family category and parameters. Cut geometry with the cut geometry tool you can pick and choose which geometry gets cut and which does not regardless of when you created the geometry. In the family category and parameters dialog select cut with voids when loaded and click ok. Load the family into the project and place it.

It will join in the wrong order and you will need to use the drop down menu next to join to switch the join order. Then from the modify tab on your ribbon use the join geometry command and select the 7 1 2 roof and the wall. Another small scale requirement is that geometry cannot be less than approximately 1 32 0 79 mm. Slight inaccuracies in the alignment may result in geometry that is invalid causing the cut command to fail.

Click modify tab geometry panel cut drop down cut geometry. Select the object to be cut. With the cut geometry tool you can pick and choose which geometry gets cut and which does not regardless of when you created the geometry. When you create a void it affects only existing geometry.

Click modify tab geometry panel cut drop down cut geometry. In this case you can use the cut geometry tool to cause the void to cut solids that are created after the void. Select the wall and use the attach top base button to attach it to the underside of only the 5 1 2 roof. That s more like it.

On a small scale side when cutting geometry the application expects faces and edges to be accurately aligned. When you create. In the family category and parameters dialog select cut with voids when loaded and click ok. Please note that this cutting of the geometry was only possible because we checked the parameter cut with void when loaded.