topic Re: Structural deck for roof in Revit Architecture Forum

Structural deck for roof

ToanDN — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 18:54:24 GMT

Is there any reason that Structural deck layer is available for Structural Floor but not Roof? How would one add a fluted deck without model a structural floor under the roof and deal with all the coordination problems, or model the entire roof a floor and miss all the roof-only features?

Re: Structural deck for roof

chrisplyler — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 19:06:20 GMT

I suppose I would either:

1. Model a structural floor and then a roof right above it to account for other layers, or...

2. Model just a roof, and then in a section view use a detail region shaped like your deck pan to cut the right shape into the concrete layer.

Re: Structural deck for roof

ToanDN — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 19:26:28 GMT

I have been avoiding cutting the details across the flutes wherever I can. When it is a must I am doing number 2 and feeling like crap.

Re: Structural deck for roof

chrisplyler — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 16:05:52 GMT

I feel your pain. Any chance you could do it as a structural slab, and then just modify a floor/slab schedule to filter the others out and rename it to read as a roof schedule?

Re: Structural deck for roof

ToanDN — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 16:45:39 GMT

That is one workaround I have also considered. Scheduling and classification are not really a problem. What nice about roofs is they can be generated based on some goofy looking mass surfaces. Structural floors can't.

Re: Structural deck for roof

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 17:17:01 GMT

Can the annotate "Detail Component" of the Deck section profiles be turned into a "repeating detail component"? If so, do you have a link on how to do so? That seems like a more usable tool than simply placing a single flute of decking at a time when detailing......

Re: Structural deck for roof

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 18:58:43 GMT

never mind........ lol that was easy enough.....

Re: Structural deck for roof

martijn_pater — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 14:50:30 GMT

I think the reason that it's not possible to use a structural deck profile for roofs, is because of the way roofs are generated ie. it has pitches in multiple directions or you can create roof by face/extrusion so then it's not nescessarily a section which would allow for the use of that. But since a structural deck is usually for flat roofs probably, you could just use a floor.