Roof Plate Offset

[eric.110455]

When creating roofs with multiple plate heights, it would be nice if Revit understood what I was tring to accomplish like other programs. I find Revit is very difficult to use when creating roofs compared to others out there, but other than that Revit is the BEST!!! The attached image illustrates that Im trying to offset a roof by 4 feet but I want the fascia below to die into the wall and the upper fascia to die into the roof above. Can this be done in one roof or do I need to keep creating multiple roofs and join them? thanks in advance.
Eric

[rjcrowther]

I believe it is multiple roofs.

[Scott D Davis]

Yes, i believe it can be done in one sketch. Can you please post the plan view of the sketch for this roof?

[rjcrowther]

Yes, i believe it can be done in one sketch. Can you please post the plan view of the sketch for this roof?

I will be interested to see this.

The problem for me has always been the very small overhang on the higher plate.
That shows itself with the lower roof pulling up short of its abutting wall because I could only ever get the roof to split heights at a vertical plane...which is fine if the roof is flush to the walls but my examples have always had an eave of some description.

[eric.110455]

Plan View as requested.....good luck

[Scott D Davis]

Ok here you go. This requires a little trick, which is to pull the roof sketch back a bit at the area where you want the lower roof to tuck under the higher roof. Then you use the Roof Join tool, and pick the edge of the roof, and then the face of the wall to attach it to. (i highlighted the picks in Red.)

Hope this helps! If you can't figure it out, let me know.

(oh, another tip: Draw this roof "normally" first to see the ridges and valleys, basically to get to the point where you were in the first 3D screen shot you posted. Then you are going to go back and edit the sketch. But first, to figure out how far the sketch line needs to go for the higher roof portion, switch to a roof plan view and draw a ref plane on the valley line. Then when you edit the sketch, draw the sketch line of the higher eave back to this ref plane.

[barrie.sharp]

Ok here you go. This requires a little trick, which is to pull the roof sketch back a bit at the area where you want the lower roof to tuck under the higher roof. Then you use the Roof Join tool, and pick the edge of the roof, and then the face of the wall to attach it to. (i highlighted the picks in Red.)

Hope this helps! If you can't figure it out, let me know.

(oh, another tip: Draw this roof "normally" first to see the ridges and valleys, basically to get to the point where you were in the first 3D screen shot you posted. Then you are going to go back and edit the sketch. But first, to figure out how far the sketch line needs to go for the higher roof portion, switch to a roof plan view and draw a ref plane on the valley line. Then when you edit the sketch, draw the sketch line of the higher eave back to this ref plane.
Genius! I'm giving you good Rep for that!

[eric.110455]

WOW, very tricky.
Thanks for the great advice

[eric.110455]

One more question, I have trouble extending roofs to walls that I edited the profile to. see attachment
Any ideas?