Revit How To Make Top Level Of Roof Extend

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Revit how to make top level of roof extend. When you select the roof face roof shape handles display. This tool is located in the modify tab. When using the pick walls tool there is a setting on the options bar called extend into wall to core. Use join unjoin roof tool.

In this video i show you how to attach the walls in revit to the roof above them. To create a dormer model required walls and additional roof. Yes it was that easy. Watch me extend a roof over a new wing.

To do this method you need to select the roof and edit the roof footprint. Mass are quite easy to make but using this method might be require a lot of works. The middle image shows the effect of attaching the walls to the roof. For example if you are in the level 2 plan view of a multi story building and you select level 4 as the top revit keeps level 4 as the top even if you add levels between level 2 and level 4.

The image on the right shows how the wall profile changes accordingly when the pitch of the attached roof is changed. Use it to extend the dormer roof to the main roof. Drag the shape handles to extend the roof. Changing slope angle and using slope arrow.

In the following example the image on the left shows a roof placed on walls that have been drawn with their top constraint specified as level 2. By default when you pick a compound wall with multiple layers the floor sketch will extend to the core boundary of the wall. Shape handles are not available for surfaces created by openings placed in roof faces. If you were to delete level 4 then the clip plane would revert back to the default level.

Shape handles are available for all non horizontal side surfaces. After converting mass faces to a roof you can use shape handles to extend the roof boundaries. In the drawing area select the roof face. If desired you can specify an offset using a positive or negative value.

Revit video tip of the day. If your design is quite simple you will not want to spend to much time on your roof. In the view range dialog levels used to define the visible range are absolute to the current level of the view. I will not discuss much about this for now.