Revit How To Add A Roof

Display a floor plan view or a reflected ceiling plan view.

Revit how to add a roof.

On the draw panel click pick walls. Creates a roof using the building footprint to define its boundaries. On the properties palette set the underlay value to 01 store floor. Create the dormer roof and join it to the main roof.

9 join roofs add opening to create dormer. Use it to extend the dormer roof to the main roof. Click architecture tabbuild panelroof drop down roof by footprint. Click architecture tab roof drop down roof by footprint.

Create the roof opening and finish the dormer. Select the wall type and constraints for a dormer that will be added to a roof. Use join unjoin roof tool. Then follow these 2 steps.

This tool is located in the modify tab. To create a dormer model required walls and additional roof. Add a dormer to a roof and use the dormer opening tool to cut the opening for it. If you try to add a roof on the lowest level a dialog prompts you to move it to a higher level.

Draw a flat roof. In this tutorial i add a roof to my house on auto. The revit interface is a bit unclear about constructing a flat roof but no roof is truly flat and creating a flat roof in revit allows the designer to annotate the roof without having to deal with the issues associated with the modeled hips and valleys of a low slope roof. This video demonstrates the following.

This video was recorded using revit 2018.