Revit Cut Roof At Height

In the drawing area select the roof.

Revit cut roof at height.

Revit gives us three options. After creating a roof you can adjust the height of the eaves. If you are not familiar with view range this image can help to set the options above. The roof tool in revit is a very simple tool to use but you can get some very complex and interesting roof designs from it.

Every plan view has a property called view range also known as a visible range. While in sketch mode select a slope defining boundary line. The top and bottom clip planes represent the topmost and bottommost portion of the view range. So i need the cut plane at the elevation more than 1700.

The cut plane is a plane that determines at what height certain. After creating a roof change the style of the eaves by specifying the rafter cut. For two cut plumb and two cut square specify a value for fascia depth between zero and the thickness of the roof. The horizontal planes are top cut plane and bottom.

The default is plumb cut as we have seen in the previous images. Click finish edit mode. Read it if you need more. On the properties palette for rafter cut select plumb cut two cut plumb or two cut square.

The view range is a set of horizontal planes that control object visibility and display in the view. The floor plan cut the model at elevation 1200 mm but the windows sill height are at 1700 mm. About the view range. In this tips tricks we are going to cover how to create a mansard roof you may not have noticed this before but revit has the ability to cut a roof at a pre set height.