Revit Cut Roof With Reference Plane

Use the cut geometry tool to cut a structural member with a plane.

Revit cut roof with reference plane. Click modify tabgeometry panelcut drop down cut geometry. Select the beam to be cut. Various methods to upgrade your office rft files to 2013. To cut a beam at a wall create a reference plane in the plane of the wall where you want the cut to occur.

To align roof ridges use the align tool. Split face divides the face of an element into regions for application of different materials. Select the reference plane and on the properties palette enter a name for the plane. Reference plane creates a reference plane using drawing tools.

Trim extend to corner trims or extend one or more elements to form a corner. Naming reference planes makes it easier to track their. Go to end view of roof elevation face on to new named ref plane select roof by extrusion the select new named ref plane from drop box. Detailed review of reference planes beam and roof systems.

Graphic display options in the family environment 2013. This method is worth learning so when plane moves everything goes with it. And cannot for the life of me figure out a way to cut the intersecting beam. 1 create another named ref plane in plan view so as to draw the roof profile roughly at end of roof image 1 2.

I have actually selected the left hand reference plane you can see that i have also named it roof start. For example use cut geometry to cut a column to a certain height or to stop a beam at a wall. That is the vertical reference planes on the left and right hand side of the image. Having trouble cutting trimming two arched cambered cellular beams where they intersect see attached screenshot.

I just tested it again on revit 2013 and it does work. Here i am using 2 reference planes to control the start and end of the roof extrusion. Cut geometry will not allow me to select the alternately intersecting beam as cut plane and i have found no way of creating a curved reference plane in order to. Open the 3d view and click architecture tab work plane panel set.

Use cut geometry and click the element and then click the plane. In the work plane dialog select the reference plane name you just created and click ok. Have tried opening by face etc.