How To Demo A Roof Revit

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How to demo a roof revit.

This guide provides the answers to the most common roof problems beginners face with revit. 6 create separate walls to demolish finish. A frequent renovation case is to demolish the finish of an exterior wall but keep the rest of the wall elements. Click on the void tab on the design bar.

1 remove slope to create flat roof. Then change the demolition phase of the portion to be demolished roof. Confused by revit roofs. We will go through the latter steps below.

A longstanding problem in revit as far as i know but i may have missed something and i just do what you suggest in a new construction phase view i select the roof or sometimes walls copy to clipboard demolish with the hammer tool and then paste to the same location to create a new construction phase copy. Give it a name something logical like demo roof void 1. How to demolish part of a roof in revit. Then set the exterior finish to be demolished.

In this case you should model two separate walls. Tell us about your issue and find the best support option. Use the void extrustion and make it massive in height so you can see it easily and trace your new walls in a plan view maybe site if you lock the sketch to the walls when your walls move so does the void. Demolishing a portion of roof is quite different to the methodology of demolishing any other element in revit.

In the option bar make sure defines slope is deactivated before drawing the boundary. Want to create a flat roof. Visit revit products forums. You can also watch the video tutorial below if you prefer.

Partial demo of roof or slab copy the roof pasted aligned in place edit one roof footprint as the portion to be demolished save edit the other roof footprint as the portion to remain save. Check out the complete blog post. We will need an existing roof structure a new roof structure as well as an exact match to the portion of roof to be demolished. One pyramid roof and the four walls under it in existing make another roof as new phase on one of the sides the same width can use lock draw a reference plane on the border of the existing roof with a very small offset exterior of the border i used an offset of 1 mm important is not to be exactly on the border because will not work.