How To Add Overhang After Roof Revit

Learn how to troubleshoot your roof overhang or offset issues to make better more precise roofs with autodesk revit.

How to add overhang after roof revit. Check out the full thing. On the options bar for overhang enter 3 and clear defines slope. Select the reference plane and on the properties palette enter a name for the plane. In the drawing area highlight the west wall.

Click architecture tab work plane panel ref plane. Specify slope defining lines. Sketch or pick a closed loop for the roof. Understand your roof options.

Two options for the overhang when you create a roof in revit using the select walls tool in the options bar you will see an option with a checkbox see the left red colored arrow in the image below. Activate overhang on picked walls roof this is part of the revit pure basics package. Open the 3d view. In the drawing area sketch a reference plane that is not perpendicular to the roof ridges.

Create roof lines with an overhang. When a dashed line is displayed on the exterior of the wall click to place the roof line. Then select the line style you want. In the properties dialog box for the view you want to see the overhang lines in set the underlay drop down to be the.

On the options bar select extend to wall core if you want the overhang to be measured from the core of the wall and then specify a value for overhang. Reference plane in plan view.