Revit Host Roof On Reference Plane

Tips tricks and troubleshooting by paul f.

Revit host roof on reference plane.

On the ribbon click reference plane. This is a short excerpt from revit. If you want to place the face based family somewhere other than a face in the properties palette deselect work plane based. Then switch to 3d view.

That is the vertical reference planes on the left and right hand side of the image. Naming reference planes makes it easier to track their. If you are linking an architectural model in to your mep model and using a reference plane to host your lighting or plumbing fixtures the direction of your reference plane will matter. Now use a combination of reference lines to lay out your slopes.

This method is worth learning so when plane moves everything goes with it. Create tabdraw panel reference plane to draw a line. The most overlooked part of the entire process is drawing the reference plane itself. Create tabdatum panel reference plane conceptual design environment.

Pick your plane and reference level. How to model a butterfly roof in revit. Architecture tabwork plane panel reference plane structure tabwork plane panel reference plane systems tabwork plane panel reference plane family editor. These parameter properties also apply to elements like lighting and other objects that might rely on a reference plane for placement.

Detailed review of reference planes beam and roof systems. The way i approach a butterfly style roof is via the roof by extrusion tool. Did you know that there are differences between drawing a reference plane from right to left versus drawing one from left to right. Hosting elements to reference planes in revit is a technique used by many but only fully understood by few.

Much the same as the earlier gable that was generated as an extrusion the process goes as follows. Only one line is necessary to extrude the roof. Use the line tool or the pick line tool to draw a reference plane. I have actually selected the left hand reference plane you can see that i have also named it roof start.

Then use lines to lay out the basis of the extrusion of the roof. Select roof by extrusion. Here i am using 2 reference planes to control the start and end of the roof extrusion. 1 create another named ref plane in plan view so as to draw the roof profile roughly at end of roof image 1 2.