topic Re: ROOF HELP!!!! in Revit Architecture Forum

ROOF HELP!!!!

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 15:55:12 GMT

Quite Lenghty so i apologize.

We did schematic and design development of a house in Sketchup. Building it in Revit for CD's and ive encountered a problem with my roof. We have an "architectural piece" for a roof but it slopes in two directions with no ridge, so using defines slope is out because it adds a ridge. Ive tried to use the slope arrow but it doesnt do it correctly. Next step was creating a Generic Model adaptive, creating the roof face then adding the roof by selecting roof by face, but it added edges. Does anyone have any idea how to get this darn thing to work easily. Attached are photos. First file is the the sketchup model with the direction of the roof slope. Second is my generic model adaptive roof face with the added lines in yellow which i guess are edges.

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constantin.stroescu — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 18:52:25 GMT

can you send a Plan View ( Top View ) of your roof to see exactly what you want to obtain? ...

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ToanDN — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 22:01:00 GMT

Is the long lower eave horizontal?

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Anonymous — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 22:27:27 GMT

The arrows are the slope im trying to get

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Anonymous — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 22:28:03 GMT

The red line is the wall below

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ToanDN — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 22:37:04 GMT

It is actually one-way slope, as is for all single plane surface. You think it is two-way because the boundary lines are not perpendicular and parallel to the slope direction.

I am kinda see what needs to be done. Can you upload a true orthogonal roof plan screenshot. Give some dims for reference.

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Anonymous — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 22:45:57 GMT

The two blue X's are the "edges" that were created when i made the roof as a mass object. I X'd them out to not confuse you

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constantin.stroescu — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 23:58:33 GMT

is it something like this?

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ToanDN — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 00:17:15 GMT

The standing seam texture direction on the rendering implies the slope direction and it seem to me that the lower eave runs perpendicular the the slope, or is horizontal. But the Revit screenshot shows otherwise. Which one is correct? Can you show an elevation from SketchUp model?

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constantin.stroescu — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 01:06:06 GMT

a small corection to my previous post...

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constantin.stroescu — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 01:47:57 GMT

here are the steps:

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Anonymous — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 14:28:25 GMT

constantin.stroescu i really appreciate you taking the time to do that. That is almost it, but it slopes in the long direction as well. (see attached) thats where im running into the problems.

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ToanDN — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 16:29:51 GMT

Can you upload a SketchUp ortho elevation looking at the roof? I tend to think what Constantin did is correct.

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Anonymous — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 16:36:00 GMT

Thanks for the reply. What Constantin did was nearly correct but he made a single slope, i need almost a shed roof that slopes both directions, along the short side and the long side. I was able to mimic this by creating a general mass adaptive family and creating the roof face, the only problem was it added "edge lines" that cut the middle of the roof which i cant seem to get to go away. The first image is the sketchup model. The second is the REvit model i was able to create using the above way, the highlighed lines are the "edge lines"

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ToanDN — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 16:40:29 GMT

You still have not posted the elevation. That is the one thing we need to see.

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Anonymous — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 16:43:11 GMT

Sorry misread your post. See attached

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Anonymous — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 16:45:04 GMT

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ToanDN — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 16:49:28 GMT

Thanks. Any chance for a true orthogonal elevation?

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constantin.stroescu — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 16:53:15 GMT

is it correct like so?

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Anonymous — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 16:55:06 GMT

YES!!!!!!!