Revit Roof Profile

Load the profile we created before.

Revit roof profile.

Edit the roof sketch select the roof and click modify roofs tab mode panel edit footprint or edit profile. You can load it by accessing revit menu open family. 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. Now open your training file.

We have implemented some advanced loadable families to easily model a roof in revit in detail. This will instruct revit to proceed and create the 3d geometry for your roof form. To find out more about us visit our website. You can now select the roof edges that will host your fascia board in sequence around your roof.

Now that the fascia profile has been loaded we can place the fascia board geometry to our roof eaves. Roof profile sketched using spline tool. In the above image the profile you see 2 is the complete profile for this roof. Sketch the profile of the roof as an open loop.

Draw one half of your gambrel roof profile working from the roof midpoint ridgeline out towards the eaves. Best way to approach a gambrel style roof in revit is by using the roof by extrusion tool. Creating your floor and cantilevers. I say again do not create a closed loop revit will not accept it for this type of sketch.

Made of polyester coated metal sheet for exact color range in your country please visit your local lindab website. For static design and calculations use lindabs own developed software lindab structuraldesigner which you will find on lindabs website. As before select roof by extrusion pick your plane and assign your reference level. When you are happy with your profile sketch go ahead and hit the green cross.

Now that you have created your revit structural decking floor type you are ready to create your floor. After creating a roof you can change its shape or overhang cut openings or align ridges. Give a relevant name such as roof slab edge profile. To begin creating your fascia in revit navigate to the architecture tab roof dropdown fascia.