How do I cut this roof?
@ganeagla1 wrote:
The roof does not look like that in real life
I would say not. I'm talking about the whole design, not just that portion under the rake. It reminds me of Penrose Stairs. I have no idea how you got that Gable over that Hip. Wild. Love to see the rvt. Regarding the portion you want to remove, you could cut it out with a in-place void.
...aren't you missing a ridge? I got a name for your roof: The Escher.
Join Geometry between roofs will make it easier to edit the roof sketch so one roof can follow their intersection. Another possibility is to use the Vertical Opening tool and cut away the portion of the roof you don't want under the other roof (or in-place void as suggested, though a bit more work). After using a Vertical Opening Revit will probably complain about the Join Geometry, just choose Un-Join. Added a 2018 example.
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It's also possible to do it with one roof sketch and shape editing - see image and example file.
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It just looks like an over frame condition to me. The roof on the left has a low "ridge" that ends at the gable of the right roof. I mocked it up again editing the sketches of the roof and a vertical opening. There is a slight bust where the lateral low ridge hits the gable end because the pitches look like they are different so they won't miter cleanly. If the pitches are the same then they'd clean up like my earlier images. I think the top plate elevation would have to be different to use the same pitch, that or the ridge is offset with the same pitch on one half but a different pitch on the other side?
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I realized I could get away with much simpler tactics - Join Roof and Dormer Opening. Create both roof sketches but stop the left one from overlapping the right roof. Use Join Roof to project the left roof over on to the right roof. Then use Dormer Opening, pick the right roof (to cut) and the left roof to define the boundary). Pretty quick. I'll attach images here and another post for the example file.
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Revit 2018 example project using Join Roof and then Dormer Opening.
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That's exactly what @SteveKStafford saw too. I didn't initially. I stared and stared at your original picture and couldn't make sense of it. Now I stare and stare at your picture, and I can't see anything but this roof. Ha! It's kind of like finding the old lady in this picture. Once you do, you can no longer see the young lady in this picture.
I was assuming using two roofs because I couldn't be sure how they overlapped exactly, nor that they used the same pitch or plate height. If they overlap in a compatible way a single sketch can cover it, like the other post showed but his image had the transition on the other side of the ridge from what you showed. This image is closer and one sketch, the same as his example, just with the cut on the other side of the ridge.
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Should be able to clean it up (all one sketch), this is an example of the sketch. The gable end does not slope, just the section along the extension to the right (see the slope triangle symbols). This assumes the roof is using the same pitch throughout and the same plate height. oops...left of the image with the gable at the end too
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