Revit Standing Seam Roof Material

In this video i show how to create a standing metal seam roof in revit 2019.

Revit standing seam roof material.

The easiest way is using a material with a surface pattern and a standing seam texture. The data is there the graphic representation is there and your construction documents will look fine. You need to select standing seam roofing in the render appearance library and you can specify it s appearance more at the metal settings. I guess it depends on how specific you want it to look.

The base material in aluminium zinc for standing seam roof is a dx54 and is 0 6mm thick making 1 m2 weighing approximately 4 7 kg. At the roof settings you can define the material of the roof. The use of profiling and seaming machines for the closure of longitudinal seam joints significantly reduces installation time. So why bother modeling the seams in 3d.

Most of the time this is a sufficient representation of a standing metal seam roof. The less easy way is from the curved surface with a surface pattern of the standing seam above place structural frame or in place sweep using pick 3d path and pick each surface pattern line to create the standing seam. By default the revit material for standing seam metal roof has a surface pattern and an image with a bump map. Vmzinc standing seam is a single folded or double folded seam.

Download bim objects for berridge metal roof and wall panels download metal roof and wall panel revit families from berridge manufacturing company with the berridge bim library. I use a material called roofing metal standing seam that i set to use an ootb relief pattern called standing seam png to control the render appearance and a simple model surface pattern called standing seam 16 etc to control it s graphics for plans and elevations and it works great. You can set how it should be displayed in the project graphically in 3d and how it should be displayed in the rendering.