In this example side faces of walls and joined faces of the roof were selected.
Revit 2018 cut extruded roof.
In the roof reference level and offset dialog select a value for level.
Valid boundaries are a joined roof or its bottom face a side face of a wall a bottom face of a floor an edge of the roof to be cut or a model line on the face of the roof to be cut.
Specify the work plane.
I can t seem to cut out the roof where the walls of the 2nd floor extrude up past the roof.
The highest level in the project is selected by default.
Click architecture tab build panel roof drop down roof by extrusion.
Display an elevation 3d or section view.
This is a general.
Determine the length of the void ideally in 3d view at wireframe mode extend this in order to intersect the roof surface that will be cut use the cut geometry command and select first the roof than the void.
Creates a roof by extruding a profile that you sketch.
Closed loop sketches in sketch mode click.
Valid boundaries are highlighted.
You can join roofs to other roofs or walls or unjoin them if they were previously joined.
The wall must be attached to the target roof and the target roof must be a footprint roof.
Cut openings in an extruded roof select the extruded roof and click modify roofs tab opening panel vertical.
Add vertical or by face opening this is part of the revit pure basics package.
If the go to view dialog displays select the appropriate plan view in which to edit the profile.
You can join a roof to the top face of another roof and the wall below that roof if you select the wall as the target.
After that you can click finish to execute the cut.
You can use model in place when you want to cut system families like roofs or walls.