Revit Roof Profile

Draw one half of your gambrel roof profile working from the roof midpoint ridgeline out towards the eaves.

Revit roof profile.

Made of polyester coated metal sheet for exact color range in your country please visit your local lindab website. This will instruct revit to proceed and create the 3d geometry for your roof form. To find out more about us visit our website. Sketch the profile of the roof as an open loop.

I say again do not create a closed loop revit will not accept it for this type of sketch. Best way to approach a gambrel style roof in revit is by using the roof by extrusion tool. Load the profile we created before. Now open your training file.

You can load it by accessing revit menu open family. When you are happy with your profile sketch go ahead and hit the green cross. Now that the fascia profile has been loaded we can place the fascia board geometry to our roof eaves. Now that you have created your revit structural decking floor type you are ready to create your floor.

You can now select the roof edges that will host your fascia board in sequence around your roof. Using the reference plane you can control the position of the extruded roof in relation to a level. Creating your floor and cantilevers. We have implemented some advanced loadable families to easily model a roof in revit in detail.

As before select roof by extrusion pick your plane and assign your reference level. Roof profile sketched using spline tool. To begin creating your fascia in revit navigate to the architecture tab roof dropdown fascia. Give a relevant name such as roof slab edge profile.

For static design and calculations use lindabs own developed software lindab structuraldesigner which you will find on lindabs website. Once your structural deck profile is loaded in modify the top layer to be concrete and enter the thickness of your slab the full slab depth including the decking not just the topping. Edit the roof sketch select the roof and click modify roofs tab mode panel edit footprint or edit profile. A classic roof profile that suites most applications.