Modifying Points In Revit For Roof Plan

Select the desired linetype from the line style type selector.

Modifying points in revit for roof plan.

Add a negative value to the middle points and a slope is created. Select the linework tool in the view panel on the home ribbon. Use the modify sub elements button to select your newly placed points. Select the floor or roof to modify.

If you want to change the position of the roof use the properties palette to edit the base level and offset properties to change the position of the reference plane. Select the roof and click modify roofs tab mode panel edit footprint or edit profile. This video shows you how to add a split line and a point to a flat roof so that you can edit the roof to allow for drainage channels gulleys. Make sure define slope is inactive and that the arrow lies on the boundaries.

Draw the arrow then click it and change the properties to select the right levels and offsets. The points are used by the shape modification tools to change the element geometry. You can use the add point tool to add singular points to the element geometry. Some typical scenarios are the include the outline of the perimeter of the roof the outline of an entrance canopy roof light positions etc.

Edit the roof sketch. If you found t. Click modify floors tabshape editing paneladd point. This create an uni directional slope parallel to the arrow.

Select your flat roof press the modify sub elements button that appears. Add point or split line if better suited creates points at intersections place your new points as required. The elevation edit box displays on the options bar with a relative check box next to it. The tail is the low point and the head is the high point.

Add a negative value to the middle points and a slope is created. If you select relative new points will be. To use this do the following. We could of course just draw these on the appropriate floor plan views using detail lines which would certainly get the job done.

This makes the roof line visible in the plan view but the lines appear as solid lines.