Trouble with Roof Forms

[kmarquis]

I've been messing around with this for over an hour. I've referred to forums and blogs and I can't figure it out. I just need a roof that looks like the attached image. It's a 6/12 pitch roof and I've tried using the slope arrow trick and I can't seem to get it to work.

Thanks in advance.

[gbrowne]

Is this what you're after?

Use 2 roofs and join geometry. Note: I had to use edit profile to clean up the wall/roof junction.

[kmarquis]

That's close. I attached what I was going for but I wasn't able to join the roofs. It just gave me an error message. I've done this before so it's driving me nuts.

[Revitaoist]

Join, then use vertical opening to get rid of the unwanted geometry.

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[kmarquis]

Thanks this is great. I'll give that a shot.

[mbalsom]

Slope arrows !

[kmarquis]

That's awesome. That's what I was attempting but it didn't work. Is there a reason the arrowheads aren't touching in the middle?

[mbalsom]

In Oz we just use "Pitch", so slope as angle (much easier). So in slope arrow properties, first box "specify" I select slope, the in dimensions properties just input angle into "slope" that way it dosn't matter how long the actual arrows are it just knows to slope the arrow at x°. and you will notice that the line at the top of the drawing is a slope line (angle) so they just converge.

[mathew.taylor71396995]

The default method of creating a sloped roof within Revit Architecture is to make one or more of the roof boundary lines “Slope Defining”. This is fine if we know what angle we want the roof slope to be at. But what if we want to create a roof based on absolute heights?

[mbalsom]

The default method of creating a sloped roof within Revit Architecture is to make one or more of the roof boundary lines “Slope Defining”. This is fine if we know what angle we want the roof slope to be at. But what if we want to create a roof based on absolute heights?

Basic trigonometry atan(rise/run)= x°

[mbalsom]

The default method of creating a sloped roof within Revit Architecture is to make one or more of the roof boundary lines “Slope Defining”. This is fine if we know what angle we want the roof slope to be at. But what if we want to create a roof based on absolute heights?

OR read up on the "modify sub elements" tool. This roof was done with 4 lines. no slope arrows, no slope defined, just points with heights.

[Michael Pukas]

mbalsom - that's very clever how you did that w/ out using pitches.

to the OP, you may also try making your roof shapes to include the valleys. Create some reference lines/planes at the valleys and make the main roof as one element that includes the valleys and the secondary roof as a separate roof that also includes the valleys. Then use join roof to mate them.