Revit Irregular Roofs

To create a dormer model required walls and additional roof.

Revit irregular roofs.

I started out with a rectangular building design. Creating a roof with different eave heights you can create a roof with slope defined lines at different elevations by joining 2 separate roofs. Changing slope angle and using slope arrow. Mass are quite easy to make but using this method might be require a lot of works.

If your design is quite simple you will not want to spend to much time on your roof. See hd version of video tutorial here. Creating complex sloping roofs in revit 2014 roof junctions controlling roof slopes and levels. I then sketched the roof profile and extruded it.

To do this method you need to select the roof and edit the roof footprint. 9 join roofs add opening to create dormer. I wanted to create an irregular skillion sloped roof see attached image. I then angled one of the walls in plan view as shown on the floor plan.

Revit roof slope can seem complicated at first glance but by learning a few critical features you can create any roof shape you desire. Use join unjoin roof tool. Whether you want a double gable roof with 6 pyramid shaped dormers or a simple gambrel roof the basics remain the same. Learn the basic modeling for 18 different roof types and variations.

The roof however stayed rectangular. Revit roof tutorial and free file download. Download the working file for free to see mo. I will not discuss much about this for now.

This tool is located in the modify tab.