Revit Roof Different Eave Heights

Use the align eaves tool to realign eave heights of different boundary lines of a roof.

Revit roof different eave heights.

This tool is located in the modify tab. After creating a roof you can adjust the height of the eaves. 9 join roofs add opening to create dormer. Assuming that you don t want your eaves jumping up and down i think you will need to start tweaking the roof slopes.

If the roofs have different overhang dimensions you either have different slopes or different eave heights. Select a roof eave line and then select an option for adjusting eave properties. This video will show you how to increase the overhang on a portion of the roof and fix the eave height. On the properties palette specify a value for offset from roof base or plate offset from base.

Changing a roof slab plate height and trimming it in autocad architecture 2014. Then follow these 2 steps. It essentially works the same way in that we pick our line that we want to keep or align to first and then we pick the eave line that we want to adjust as well as the other one. Take a look in 3d to see what is really happening.

The roof with the lower eave height would require a roof slope pitch greater that the roof with the higher eave height. Use join unjoin roof tool. While in sketch mode select a slope defining boundary line. Align eaves i get the same amount of drop but we have the other option.

To keep the ridge line centered on the structure and have 2 eaves at different heights with identical overhangs you would have to have 2 different roof slopes. Use it to extend the dormer roof to the main roof. Fascia tool to sweep along eave and the rake which still leaves me with an open end. Click finish edit mode.

In order to close off the end of the soffit i will create a new fascia sweep but i will host it to the soffit not to the roof eave or rake. Dimensions display near the eaves to indicate their height.