Revit Roof Crickets

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Revit roof crickets.

My two favorite approaches to creating a flat roof cricket in revit are either creating an adaptive component or modifying the sub elements of the roof. Existing roof cricket 1 unjoin the roof 2 create a reference plane 1 away from the edge of the second roof 3 edit the footprint of the unjoined roof. Select the roof you ll see a button to modify sub elements. The cricket would direct the rain to pass the chimney on either side.

This button doesn t even exist if the roof has any slope. How do you construct a roof cricket. Eric wing dives into flat roofs first showing how to pitch insulation to roof drains add crickets and warp roofs to fit sloped framing. For example on the back side of a chimney as the roof slopes down on it.

This would be done simply as a small dormer roof joined to the main roof. Draw a top down triangular foorprint of your roof. From flat roofs to fun free form roofs and everything in between hip gable mansard dutch hip combination and gambrel. Once you click it this will give you a grip at each corner of your triangular roof which you can modify the elevation of.

This course covers the topic of adding roofs roof framing and detailing with revit.