ROOF HELP!!!!

ROOF HELP!!!!

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ROOF HELP!!!!

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

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ToanDN
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Is the long lower eave horizontal?
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Anonymous
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The arrows are the slope im trying to get

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Anonymous
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The red line is the wall below

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ToanDN
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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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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
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is it something like this?

 

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ToanDN
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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
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a small corection to my previous post...

 

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constantin.stroescu
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here are the steps:

 

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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
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Can you upload a SketchUp ortho elevation looking at the roof? I tend to think what Constantin did is correct.
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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
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You still have not posted the elevation. That is the one thing we need to see.
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Anonymous
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Sorry misread your post. See attached

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ToanDN
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Thanks. Any chance for a true orthogonal elevation?
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constantin.stroescu
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is it correct like so?

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YES!!!!!!!

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