Revit Dormer Roof

Architecture tab opening panel dormer opening highlight the main roof on the building model and click to select it.

Revit dormer roof.

This tool is located in the modify tab. The pick roof wall edges tool is active so that you can pick the boundaries that compose the dormer opening. First a work plane needs to be decided upon. The pick roof wall edges tool is active so that you can pick the boundaries that compose the dormer opening.

Use join unjoin roof tool. Roof overhang should be set to 2 0. Use it to extend the dormer roof to the main roof. To create a dormer roof we first need to start with the smaller roof portion of the dormer.

Adding a dormer is easy if you don t care about overlapping geometry or what the interior might look like figure 1. You can model this in any of the 3 primary roof modelling methods but in the example i have opted to use the roof by extrusion tool. Type 2 dormers do not have sidewalls and the dormer roof springs from the eaves of the main roof steps for type 1 dormers. Type 1 dormers have sidewalls.

Watch the status bar to be sure that you are highlighting the main roof. Draw a building with a gable roof. Watch the status bar to be sure that you are highlighting the main roof. Set view to level 2.

Creating dormer roofs in revit building 11 jan 2006 by. Dormers in revit you should be able to draw two kinds of dormers. To create a dormer model required walls and additional roof. This tutorial explains the process to create a gable dormer in revit.

9 join roofs add opening to create dormer. Attach walls to roof 3. Then follow these 2 steps.