Hi all,
I am trying to create some relatively complex roof shapes, and can't seem to figure out the best way to achieve my design in Revit. Here is an elevation of what I am going for:
screenshot20130316at336.png
And section:
screenshot20130316at337.png
So you can see the roofs are shaped in both plan/elevation and section (basically trapezoidal). I first tried to create a mass and use Roof by Face, but on the faces that are close to vertical I got a weird result (mass highlighted in blue):
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You can see that they don't appear to be created perpendicular to the face, but rather it looks more related to the Z axis.
I also tried to create the roof by extrusion, but I can't figure out a good way to trim it in plan/elevation. I know there's the Vertical Opening tool, but again that's as if you took a cookie cutter and sliced straight down on the roof (i.e. you can't get the trapezoidal shape in elevation). It seems like I should be able to do this in Revit: I'm in graduate school and really want to push Revit to achieve a complex design. Any help you can give me will be greatly appreciated.
JP