Revit Show Roof Overhang

The wall section above right which by the way is from my recently published book residential roof design using autodesk revit shows an overhang of one foot six inches.

Revit show roof overhang.

February 17th 2014 04 31 am 2. Z almightysr wrote in message news 41dbfebb 1 2 newsprd01. Why do i not get the option for a roof overhang. Click finish edit mode.

Roof overhang grayed out just on one side of my roof the overhang is grayed out and i can t set it 2 0. Look at the option bar. When editing the footprint of a roof modify properties of its boundary lines to change the roof overhang. W e re going to do this twice because there are two options inside the a djust eaves command.

On the properties palette enter a value for overhang. 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. We could of course just draw these on the appropriate floor. We ve got a six on twelve pitched hip roof except i put nine on twelve on the ends.

Now the next step is to select the linework tool from the modify tab view panel. See attached what am i doing wrong. Then select the line style you want to represent the roof overhang in the view. One option is adjusting the overhang and the other is.

In sketch mode select a boundary line for the roof. There are many situations when you need to show the outline or boundary of overhead elements on your plan views. Welcome to the revit forum. After creating a roof you can change its shape or overhang cut openings or align ridges.

W e have this dual pitch tip condition. Edit the roof sketch select the roof and click modify roofs tabmode panel edit footprint or edit profile. This is measured from the exterior face of the wall s studs telling us that the extend into wall to core option was checked. The second option if the box is unchecked means that the specified overhang dimension will be measured from the exterior finish face of your wall out to the rafter ends.

Two models are essentially the same right now. Roofs by footprint have an overhang input box sketched roofs use the standard offset tools. Help menus says its there. Some typical scenarios are the include the outline of the perimeter of the roof the outline of an entrance canopy roof light positions etc.

Inside revit i ve got some simple models that show these concepts. Posts 61 current local time 06 22 pm.