Revit Roof Plan View

Open the plan view of the level in which you want to see the roof line.

Revit roof plan view.

Click view tab create panel plan views drop down and then click floor plan reflected ceiling plan structural plan in the new plan dialog. Click architecture tabbuild panelroof drop down roof by footprint. There are many situations when you need to show the outline or boundary of overhead elements on your plan views. This makes the roof line visible in the plan view but the lines appear as solid lines.

Some typical scenarios are the include the outline of the perimeter of the roof the outline of an entrance canopy roof light positions etc. If you try to add a roof on the lowest level a dialog prompts you to move it to a higher level. I guess it s the autocad mentality that is so hard to shake at first. Select the linework tool in the view panel on the home ribbon.

But for whatever reason my a dash roof does not exist. Anyway over time i ve seen and heard plenty of suggestions on what a user should or should not do to expose missing elements but the following top 10 reasons is the most comprehensive check list i ve seen. C dash roof exist d dash roof exist and that s for each of the buildings that we have over here. Add another view to your project or duplicate an existing view.

Display a floor plan view or a reflected ceiling plan view. Revit displays the modify linework contextual ribbon. If you choose not to move the roof to a different level revit notifies you. So in order to create that a dash roof plan what i can do is come over here to my view tab click here and then come into my floorplan view.

People who are new to revit are always having issues seeing everything in a project view.