Creating Valley Rafters

[Anonymous]

Hello all,

I'm designing a heavy timber legacy cabin at the moment. The cabin is to have two dormers on one of the sides of the roof and I am having trouble creating a valley rafter for this dormer that matches the slope of both my roof of my dormer and the roof over the main part of the cabin. Is there any easier way to do this or am I going to have to create my own family to match both angles where the two roofs meet?

[twebb4CYQY]

Have you tried beam command in the 3d view with 3d snapping, by the looks of it you should be able to snap to the end of each of those beams.

Otherwise I'd go for double set of reference planes at each location, place the beam and manually adjust into place.

[Anonymous]

I did do this, I can get it in the right place but the beam itself needs to have both roof pitches cut into it. The top corners of the beam have to be cut off so that they match the roof plane of the two roofs coming together. Right now, the top corners of my beam are going into the roof and they should be cut so that they are flush on the bottom face of the roof planes. 

[Anonymous]

How you getting on with this? 
I tend to create a reference plane for my roof then use the beam system to drop the rafters in. For the Valley rafter, I copy one of the rafters across so the bottom is in the right place then simply manipulate the top into position. It will keep the valley in the same reference plane - sometimes you need to change the rotation of the valley. Then, on the 3d view i use a couple of short reference planes and the cut command to profile the top of the valley beam.

But from your jpg, you should just be able to manually move the grip for the valley until it meets the rafter, then profile as above.

I'm pretty new to Revit though! 

atb,

Josh