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How do you show your Roof above

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Anonymous
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How do you show your Roof above

I've drawn a roof soffit and would like for it to show dotted in my plan
view. How do you do this?
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Message 2 of 6
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

I'd open the floor plan you'd like to see the "dotted line" in.
Got to View Properties and choose your Roof Plan as Underlay.
Go to Drafting Tab, Detail Lines and choose a line that is dotted or dashed.
Use the Pick Lines tool, hold cursor over edge of roof, tab to choose the
entire roof perimeter, click to select. You should now have a dashed or
dotted line representing the "roof above." Go back to view properties and
choose "none" for underlay.

"C Ryan" wrote in message
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I've drawn a roof soffit and would like for it to show dotted in my plan
view. How do you do this?
Message 3 of 6
Steve_Stafford
in reply to: Anonymous

Two approaches:

Linework feature (fountain pen tip on toolbar):

This feature allows you to override the way an object appears in a view. So if you can "see" the object you can use linework on it to change its appearance. So as David says in his reply you can change your view to show an underlay or change the view range to temporarily move the cut plane and top offset high enough to see the roof edge. Then use Linework to change the roof eave to the linestyle you want. If you don't have one, make one first, Settings menu > Linestyles.

Different from David's suggestion, Linework does not add new lines, it changes the appearance of the object you apply the linework to. These overrides occur only in the view you apply them to and will persist as long as the object does not change substantially. In some cases a change will cause the linework to revert back to its normal display. Reapplying the linework will fix that.

Overlaying views on sheets:

This involves duplicating a view and altering what and how much is visible so that you can override the display of objects so they look the way you want. For a roof edge above I'd make a copy of the floor plan and turn off everything except for the roof category. Then shift the view range up higher than the roof so it doesn't get cut. Override the projection linestyle for the roof category so it looks dashed or whatever you want.

Now you can place this on top of your floor plan view on the sheet. As long as it is the same scale and orientation they will align. Revit will display a green dashed vertical and horizontal line when they are aligned. Use a viewport style that has no view title and has the line turned off. Once set you may never have to adjust this view again.
Message 4 of 6
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Thanks.

wrote in message news:5229716@discussion.autodesk.com...
Two approaches:

Linework feature (fountain pen tip on toolbar):

This feature allows you to override the way an object appears in a view. So
if you can "see" the object you can use linework on it to change its
appearance. So as David says in his reply you can change your view to show
an underlay or change the view range to temporarily move the cut plane and
top offset high enough to see the roof edge. Then use Linework to change
the roof eave to the linestyle you want. If you don't have one, make one
first, Settings menu > Linestyles.

Different from David's suggestion, Linework does not add new lines, it
changes the appearance of the object you apply the linework to. These
overrides occur only in the view you apply them to and will persist as long
as the object does not change substantially. In some cases a change will
cause the linework to revert back to its normal display. Reapplying the
linework will fix that.

Overlaying views on sheets:

This involves duplicating a view and altering what and how much is visible
so that you can override the display of objects so they look the way you
want. For a roof edge above I'd make a copy of the floor plan and turn off
everything except for the roof category. Then shift the view range up
higher than the roof so it doesn't get cut. Override the projection
linestyle for the roof category so it looks dashed or whatever you want.

Now you can place this on top of your floor plan view on the sheet. As long
as it is the same scale and orientation they will align. Revit will display
a green dashed vertical and horizontal line when they are aligned. Use a
viewport style that has no view title and has the line turned off. Once set
you may never have to adjust this view again.
Message 5 of 6
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Check out the brain on Steve.
I'll be saving this one for future reference....many ways to achieve a
specific "view" in Revit.

"C Ryan" wrote in message
news:5230051@discussion.autodesk.com...
Thanks.

wrote in message news:5229716@discussion.autodesk.com...
Two approaches:

Linework feature (fountain pen tip on toolbar):

This feature allows you to override the way an object appears in a view. So
if you can "see" the object you can use linework on it to change its
appearance. So as David says in his reply you can change your view to show
an underlay or change the view range to temporarily move the cut plane and
top offset high enough to see the roof edge. Then use Linework to change
the roof eave to the linestyle you want. If you don't have one, make one
first, Settings menu > Linestyles.

Different from David's suggestion, Linework does not add new lines, it
changes the appearance of the object you apply the linework to. These
overrides occur only in the view you apply them to and will persist as long
as the object does not change substantially. In some cases a change will
cause the linework to revert back to its normal display. Reapplying the
linework will fix that.

Overlaying views on sheets:

This involves duplicating a view and altering what and how much is visible
so that you can override the display of objects so they look the way you
want. For a roof edge above I'd make a copy of the floor plan and turn off
everything except for the roof category. Then shift the view range up
higher than the roof so it doesn't get cut. Override the projection
linestyle for the roof category so it looks dashed or whatever you want.

Now you can place this on top of your floor plan view on the sheet. As long
as it is the same scale and orientation they will align. Revit will display
a green dashed vertical and horizontal line when they are aligned. Use a
viewport style that has no view title and has the line turned off. Once set
you may never have to adjust this view again.
Message 6 of 6
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Yeah sticking the 2 views on top of one another is a great idea.

"david" wrote in message
news:5230336@discussion.autodesk.com...
Check out the brain on Steve.
I'll be saving this one for future reference....many ways to achieve a
specific "view" in Revit.

"C Ryan" wrote in message
news:5230051@discussion.autodesk.com...
Thanks.

wrote in message news:5229716@discussion.autodesk.com...
Two approaches:

Linework feature (fountain pen tip on toolbar):

This feature allows you to override the way an object appears in a view. So
if you can "see" the object you can use linework on it to change its
appearance. So as David says in his reply you can change your view to show
an underlay or change the view range to temporarily move the cut plane and
top offset high enough to see the roof edge. Then use Linework to change
the roof eave to the linestyle you want. If you don't have one, make one
first, Settings menu > Linestyles.

Different from David's suggestion, Linework does not add new lines, it
changes the appearance of the object you apply the linework to. These
overrides occur only in the view you apply them to and will persist as long
as the object does not change substantially. In some cases a change will
cause the linework to revert back to its normal display. Reapplying the
linework will fix that.

Overlaying views on sheets:

This involves duplicating a view and altering what and how much is visible
so that you can override the display of objects so they look the way you
want. For a roof edge above I'd make a copy of the floor plan and turn off
everything except for the roof category. Then shift the view range up
higher than the roof so it doesn't get cut. Override the projection
linestyle for the roof category so it looks dashed or whatever you want.

Now you can place this on top of your floor plan view on the sheet. As long
as it is the same scale and orientation they will align. Revit will display
a green dashed vertical and horizontal line when they are aligned. Use a
viewport style that has no view title and has the line turned off. Once set
you may never have to adjust this view again.

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