Hit the edit roof button.
Revit no check box to finish roof.
Next to the desired layer of the roof or floor in the assembly select the variable check box.
Check the defines slope paramater and give it a slope.
We will delve into great detail on each later on but to start let s look at the standard roof by footprint workflow.
The finish and cancel buttons are missing when in group edit mode the edit group ribbon panel is offscreen.
Well first off you need full revit with modify sub elements tools.
This will put you back in sketch mode.
Modelling roofs is no different.
Click ok until all of the dialogs are closed.
Select the roof edge that will be the gutter edge.
There are 3 primary sub tools that you can use to model roofs in revit roof by footprint roof by extrusion and roof by face.
If it can t be found after minimizing all windows try using the windows key d shortcut to show the desktop this sometimes brings up floating dialogs into the view.
Autodesk revit 2008 raising the roof.
Hello i am using revit 2014 and when i attach my brick walls to the roof the attachment works but its losing the exterior pattern finish.
Check box in which case you can later modify the thickness of that layer for example.
The area above the boundary line is a different shade with no pattern.
Second you edit structure of a floor or roof system family type and in it s edit assembly dialog box check the variable checkbox next to the layer that will be variable thickness.
To model a roof by footprint in revit undertake the following.
The roof type and specify roof parameters.
Click modify element tab shape editing panel modify sub elements and make the desired changes to the roof or floor.
There is a disctinct line between the perpendicular boundary lower and the top of the roof.
Locate the group edit panel and drag it back to the revit ribbon.
For gables do the same thing for 2 opposing roof edges.
Your roof now has a slope.
For hips same thing for all 4 roof edges.