Revit Roof Crickets

The industry rule of thumb is that the cricket panel slope should be twice that of the roof surface slope.

Revit roof crickets.

Thanks edit for broken link. This thread is archived. I e if the roof surface. Eric wing dives into flat roofs first showing how to pitch insulation to roof drains add crickets and warp roofs to fit sloped framing.

Any ideas on how this can be achieved. My two favorite approaches to creating a flat roof cricket in revit are either creating an adaptive component or modifying the sub elements of the roof. This would be done simply as a small dormer roof joined to the main roof. Similar to a lot of elements in revit there are many ways to go about flat roofs.

Align one edge of the roof to the reference plane 4 copy the roof paste it in the same place. Summary 1 unjoin the roof 2 create a reference plane 1 away from the edge of the second roof 3 edit the footprint of the unjoined roof. For example on the back side of a chimney as the roof slopes down on it. It will place in the new construction phase 5 edit the footprint of the new roof.

Roof surface roof surface slope cricket width cricket length cricket panel slope cricket valley slope cricket angle distance between points 3 and 4 cricket angle 2 the manufactured slope of the cricket panel. Many thanks kind regards ian. This course covers the topic of adding roofs roof framing and detailing with revit. How do you construct a roof cricket.

How can i create this type of roof cricket. Additionally people get extremely creative when it comes to the crickets on flat roofs. The cricket would direct the rain to pass the chimney on either side. See more ideas about roof roofing roof repair.

Jun 15 2017 explore anibal carbonell s board roof cricket on pinterest.