Structural deck for roof

[ToanDN]

Is there any reason that Structural deck layer is available for Structural Floor but not Roof?  How would one add a fluted deck without model a structural floor under the roof and deal with all the coordination problems, or model the entire roof a floor and miss all the roof-only features?

[chrisplyler]

I suppose I would either:

1. Model a structural floor and then a roof right above it to account for other layers, or...

2. Model just a roof, and then in a section view use a detail region shaped like your deck pan to cut the right shape into the concrete layer.

[ToanDN]

I have been avoiding cutting the details across the flutes wherever I can. When it is a must I am doing number 2 and feeling like crap.

[chrisplyler]

I feel your pain. Any chance you could do it as a structural slab, and then just modify a floor/slab schedule to filter the others out and rename it to read as a roof schedule?

[ToanDN]

That is one workaround I have also considered. Scheduling and classification are not really a problem. What nice about roofs is they can be generated based on some goofy looking mass surfaces. Structural floors can't.

[Anonymous]

Can the annotate "Detail Component" of the Deck section profiles be turned into a "repeating detail component"? If so, do you have a link on how to do so? That seems like a more usable tool than simply placing a single flute of decking at a time when detailing...... 

[Anonymous]

never mind........ lol that was easy enough..... 

[martijn_pater]

I think the reason that it's not possible to use a structural deck profile for roofs, is because of the way roofs are generated ie. it has pitches in multiple directions or you can create roof by face/extrusion so then it's not nescessarily a section which would allow for the use of that. But since a structural deck is usually for flat roofs probably, you could just use a floor.