Creating a custom hipped roof with dormers in Revit from a 2D Roof Plan drawing

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I am trying to create a hipped roof in Revit 2020 from a pre existing Autocad Roof plan with dormers included as well. Are there any tutorials for creating such complex geometry that you may know of? I have seen videos about creating hipped roofs with the built in specification. I am trying to edit the dimension of the ridge or of the height of the roof but I am unaware how this can be created.

Thank you for your help.

[barthbradley]

You got any pictures? Maybe post the DWG?  Then we can direct you to the best learning resource

[Anonymous]

I have attached the autocad file and the revit file in this message. Thank you for your help.

[constantin.stroescu]

Place the imported CAD file in background, and trace a Roof by Footprint using it as reference.

This first step is rather easy to achieve...but solving the polygonal part of the roof ( upper-left ) that has different slopes implies using some geometry constructions ( as shown in my screencast)

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/5485c4b8-9e30-4eba-bfa3-e3070b5766ce

[Anonymous]

• Thank you so much for the reply and for the video tutorial.
• I am failry new to Revit and I am an avid learner of new software. I would appreciate very much if you could provide a tutorial video for the Revit file I have attached. The roof plan Autocad reference sketch is at level 3 and I am trying to model the roof. Firstly the bigger roof has to be model, then the dormers need to put in place. Thank you very much for your understanding and help.

[constantin.stroescu]

let me understand..

• .is this the roof you want to model?

if it is then :

•  what is the slope value? is it 39.25 degrees?...as it is in your elevations?
• where are placed these two dormers?

• or it is the CAD file from the Revit background? it is another roof...

I see no  no elevations information for this roof, neither see any dormer as in your details from the other file...

[Anonymous]

Thank you for the reply. The roof is in plan and elevation in Autocad and in roof plan in Revit in the background. I have attached both files here. Thank you for your help, I appreciate your time and effort.

[constantin.stroescu · Accepted solution]

should I understand that you want something like this?

[Anonymous]

Perfect, this is exactly the type of roof I am trying to model up. Thank you so much for taking the time.

[Anonymous]

I woyld appreciate if you could provide a video of how you constructed this model. Thank you very much jm advance

[constantin.stroescu · Accepted solution]

I made a rough screencast and I've attached the file with the test.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/eeed58ff-557b-48e8-8700-632fcd10e951

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Thank you so very much. I appreciate this very much, for your time and effort of looking into this model project. 

kind regards