Revit Roof Profile

Now that you have created your revit structural decking floor type you are ready to create your floor.

Revit roof profile.

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

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. You can load it by accessing revit menu open family. For static design and calculations use lindabs own developed software lindab structuraldesigner which you will find on lindabs website.

When you are happy with your profile sketch go ahead and hit the green cross. 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. Best way to approach a gambrel style roof in revit is by using the roof by extrusion tool.

Now open your training file. This will instruct revit to proceed and create the 3d geometry for your roof form. Roof profile sketched using spline tool. After creating a roof you can change its shape or overhang cut openings or align ridges.

Revit places a reference plane at the specified offset. Edit the roof sketch select the roof and click modify roofs tab mode panel edit footprint or edit profile. We have implemented some advanced loadable families to easily model a roof in revit in detail. 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.

Give a relevant name such as roof slab edge profile. Load the profile we created before. A classic roof profile that suites most applications. To find out more about us visit our website.