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How to design a corrugated roof in Revit?

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jmmeshack
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How to design a corrugated roof in Revit?

I want to define a corrugated iron sheet roof but cant remember how to go about it.

 

Title edited for clarity by @Viveka_CD

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Corsten.Au
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bimscape
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The first question you need to ask yourself is....

 

Do I "need" to model (in 3D) the corrugations- or is it sufficient to just show them as as a series of lines? As always, there's pros and cons.

 

I think it's important that people think out what they want / need from a component / system family before they embark on it's creation.

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Sahay_R
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I'm with @bimscape on this. However, if you really are a sucker for punishment, try by modeling the Roof as Extrusion. hat would be helpful if you need only a couple of instances. If you are going to use this a bunch of times. then the approach suggested by @dzanta in the screencast mentioned by @Corsten.Au would be the way to go.


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ToanDN
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Agreed with @bimscape - don't over model if you don't have to.  My order of tools to create a corrugated roof.  The first one is my preference and the last three are equally in terms of favorable.

 

1. Using a normal roof and assign a material with a simple model surface pattern and a good corrugated metal image/bump map for realistic/rendering

 

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2. Using a sloped glazing and corrugated curtain wall panels as shown in the video that @Corsten.Au linked.  Be aware that this approach only works (very well) for rectangular roofs.

 

3. Using a sloped glazing and mullions for the corrugated module, no panels.  This works for non-rectangular roofs but there is a limit on the number of mullions in one system so if the roof is large, it needs to be subdivided to smaller ones.  This is also very heavy on the model.

 

4. Using a sloped beam system, each beam is a corrugated module.  This is a similar to (3) but with a higher limit of the number of modules.  Also very heavy on size. 

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Viveka_CD
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Hi @jmmeshack

 

Welcome to the Autodesk community! Thanks for visiting and posting a question on the forums.Smiley Happy

 

Please mark responses that helped with "Accept as Solution", this will help others find answers more quickly.

 

Thanks!

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frazer.reynolds
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Appreciate this an old post but are you able to go into any more detail regarding option 3? 

 

I have relatively small area of our roof which will require non rectangular panels so this seems like the best option. However as its mono pitched its difficult to see how this would be terminated at corners to work correctly. 

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