Revit Trim Intersecting Roofs

Then you can trim the roof faces to this line.

Revit trim intersecting roofs.

Voila the opening is cut and the intersection between the roofs is tidy even if the roof pitches differ which doesn t happen with shaft vertical openings and if you modify your main roof or intersecting roof the cut will update. If the trimming object is a wall or a slab the trim plane is at the closest surface. This is a general. Select the slab or roof slab to be trimmed.

You cannot join a roof to more than one top face of another roof. The wall must be attached to the target roof and the target roof must be a footprint roof. Then follow these 2 steps. Truss or rafter now that we have used our pick walls tool with a 2 0 overhang let s explore it s bearing point.

You can join roofs to other roofs or walls or unjoin them if they were previously joined. Use it to extend the dormer roof to the main roof. The bad thing about extruded roofs is the fact you can t follow along with the footprint of your building the good thing is we can do something about that the objective of this video is to go to the plan view we will then create a void where our walls jag in and out this is going to allow revit to cut the roof properly in plan to get started jump into your revit roofs. With the overlapping roof faces in top plan view select the roof faces and use the modify convert copy to lines command and choose hidden line as the rendering option.

The new edge at the trim plane has its edge angle defined by the trim plane. You end up with a group of lines showing the outline of the roof plus the intersecting line between the roof faces. Use join unjoin roof tool. To create a dormer model required walls and additional roof.

9 join roofs add opening to create dormer. This tool is located in the modify tab.