Revit Host Roof On Reference Plan

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Revit host roof on reference plan.

Convert a hosted family to face based or non hosted family this is a short excerpt from revit. Tips tricks and troubleshooting by paul f. Creating a roof in revit roof by footprint go to your desired plan view to begin modelling you roof. This view should ideally have been generated from the level that will act as the host or base level for your new roof construction.

Structure tab work plane panel reference plane systems tab work plane panel reference plane family editor. Did you know that there are differences between drawing a reference plane from right to left versus drawing one from left to right. That is the vertical reference planes on the left and right hand side of the image. To raise or lower the roof from the reference level specify a value for offset.

In this image we are looking down plan view on to the top of an extruded roof i ll show you how to create these later on in the course. Here i am using 2 reference planes to control the start and end of the roof extrusion. The most overlooked part of the entire process is drawing the reference plane itself. In the drawing area draw the reference planes by dragging the cursor.

On the draw panel click line. Next navigate to the architecture tab roof dropdown roof by footprint as per the image below. Create tab draw panel reference plane to draw a line. Take the above example.

Revit places a reference plane at the specified offset. Using the reference plane you can control the position of the extruded roof in relation to a level.