Revit Set Roof To Reference Plan

Select the desired linetype from the line style type selector.

Revit set roof to reference plan.

Capture other features modelled below. I have a situation where a new revit user unknowingly placed an elevation tag callout on the roof level verses the floor level. Select the linework tool in the view panel on the home ribbon. Take the above example.

Here i am using 2 reference planes to control the start and end of the roof extrusion. If you try to add a roof on the lowest level a dialog prompts you to move it to a higher level. As you can see i have my roof outline over a wall outline but no cavity lines in the wall. Add a roof using one of the following methods.

Cut plan keep above roof level. This method is worth learning so when plane moves everything goes with it. And remove underlay if there is any. Of course when they latter opened the floor plan they couldn t find the elevation tag.

Keeping lower than that might. If you choose not to move the roof to a different level revit notifies you later if the. There doesn t seem to be a way in the tag properties to reassign the elevation tag level reference. If they hadn t spent so much time creating the elevations i would just have them.

Go to end view of roof elevation face on to new named ref plane select roof by extrusion the. Do the roof first create a reference plane that is aligned and locked to the roof then set a view that is perpendicular to that reference plane and use that to sketch the beam system. I m trying to currently show the cavity wall outline only with my roof outline overlaid as such. Bottom and view depth just below roof level or roof level itself.

On the draw panel click line. I ve attached an image as to how far i ve got. Now if the slope of the roof changes the reference plane will folow the slope and the beam system will follow the reference plane. Click architecture tabbuild panelroof drop down roof by footprint.

Create tab datum panel reference plane conceptual design environment. Sketch a roof by footprint display a floor plan view or a reflected ceiling plan view. Click on each roof edge line to change the linetype. Revit displays the modify linework contextual ribbon.

This makes the roof line visible in the plan view but the lines appear as solid lines. In this image we are looking down plan view on to the top of an extruded roof i ll show you how to create these later on in the course. Create tab draw panel reference plane to draw a line. If i change the cut in the view range to go lower it shows the cavity wall outline but cuts the roof.

1 create another named ref plane in plan view so as to draw the roof profile roughly at end of roof image 1 2. Structure tab work plane panel reference plane systems tab work plane panel reference plane family editor.