Revit Roof Profile

You can load it by accessing revit menu open family.

Revit roof profile.

Using the reference plane you can control the position of the extruded roof in relation to a level. Now that you have created your revit structural decking floor type you are ready to create your floor. This will instruct revit to proceed and create the 3d geometry for your roof form. To find out more about us visit our website.

For static design and calculations use lindabs own developed software lindab structuraldesigner which you will find on lindabs website. Revit places a reference plane at the specified offset. Load the profile we created before. Now that the fascia profile has been loaded we can place the fascia board geometry to our roof eaves.

I say again do not create a closed loop revit will not accept it for this type of sketch. To begin creating your fascia in revit navigate to the architecture tab roof dropdown fascia. Roof profile sketched using spline tool. Best way to approach a gambrel style roof in revit is by using the roof by extrusion tool.

A classic roof profile that suites most applications. Made of polyester coated metal sheet for exact color range in your country please visit your local lindab website. We have implemented some advanced loadable families to easily model a roof in revit in detail. When you are happy with your profile sketch go ahead and hit the green cross.

Creating your floor and cantilevers. Once your structural deck profile is loaded in modify the top layer to be concrete and enter the thickness of your slab the full slab depth including the decking not just the topping. You can now select the roof edges that will host your fascia board in sequence around your roof. Edit the roof sketch select the roof and click modify roofs tab mode panel edit footprint or edit profile.

After creating a roof you can change its shape or overhang cut openings or align ridges. Give a relevant name such as roof slab edge profile. As before select roof by extrusion pick your plane and assign your reference level. In the above image the profile you see 2 is the complete profile for this roof.