How To Join Roof In Revit

For creating complex roof it might be easier if you create separate roof then use join roof tool to join them later.

How to join roof in revit.

You cannot join a roof to more than one top face of another roof. Then follow these 2 steps. I made the roof work but it doesn t want to join. 9 join roofs add opening to create dormer.

This article will show you how to do it just like in the image below. Prior to making it a metal roof by using sloped glazing from a standard 4 generic roof it looked ok by sitting next to or in line with the lower roof as all you saw was a line. 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. Selecting the dormer roof lead edge with join roof tool in revit.

This is the easiest way to do it. To create a dormer model required walls and additional roof. You can join roofs to other roofs or walls or unjoin them if they were previously joined. But i m not really sure if this is a best practice.

The wall must be attached to the target roof and the target roof must be a footprint roof. But the smaller gable was created the same way and at the same level as the larger gable but it could join when revit said the larger one couldn t join. This tool is located in the modify tab. Roof by extrusion dormer roof joined to main roof slope.

To do this navigate to the architecture tab walls wa. The main roof plane is selected afterwards and the two join correctly. Use join unjoin roof tool. Though when i first created the roofs i created them all as individual roofs but when i did it that way i kept on walking into problems with the larger gable not joining into the main roof.

The next step is to place the dormer walls. 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. I am using revit 2011 also if ther is another way to make a dbl slope roof insted of doing to roofs please let me know what you have found. I believe this tools are not design for this purpose.

Using shape editing tools. If you want to learn how to create this model of a house with all of its structural support frame the link will be somewhere in this article read on to find out. This is a general. Use it to extend the dormer roof to the main roof.

You need to create the bay window roof separately.