Revit LT Roof Scissors Trusses

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know the best way to create roof scissors trusses with 2' top chord extensions in a Revit LT model?  For instance: a 10/12 top chord and 7/12 bottom chord, with an 18" high energy heel at the outer face of a 2x6 bearing wall.  it would be nice to have these as parametric objects so that sloped ceiling finishes can be applied to them, ceiling insulation, as well as have the truss underside (bottom chord) be the plane that interior partitions clip themselves to.  Thanks for you input.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Jeff; that is good to know. I should have my copy of Revit LT here in about a week. I appreciate your guidance on this, and I am sure on upcoming things. Since I completed Eric Wing's big book on Revit Architecture 2013, it appears that there are about 220 things you need to know how to do in full Revit and perhaps 80% of that in Revit LT. Would you agree with that count?

[Bob_Zurunkle]

Hopefully you are getting the suite (includes AutoCAD LT) and subscription? Don't forget that subscription entitles you to use of their cloud for renderings 🙂

[Anonymous]

Hello Bob.  Yes sir, I got the Revit 2013 LT Suite, which includes the 1-year subscription and AutoCad 2013LT.  I also ordered the AutoCad2013 for Dummies book, because the version I'm familiar with is over a decade old.  I am sure the interface of AutoCad has completely changed.  Hope my shortcuts still works and that most of the tool icons are the same.  And I hope that I can ramp up on Revit LT quickly enough to have new Revit projects take the place of doing things in AutoCad.  That's the main idea.  I recently finished studying Eric Wing's excellent Revit Architecture 2013 NER, all 1,000 pages.  Looks like there is about 220 procedures that you need to become familiar with for full Revit and I'm going to guess at perhaps 80% (=176+/-) of that count for Revit LT.  Thanks for asking.

[Bob_Zurunkle]

Well, forums such as this and AUGI are great places to ask questions and get tips. Don't toss your AutoCAD stuff out yet because there are ways to incorporate it into Revit!

[Anonymous]

Does AUGI discuss Revit tips?

[Bob_Zurunkle]

AUGI does have Revit forums...