Corugated sheet roofing

[ljupadhyay]

Hi
Any one having corugated sheet roofing to share ? I need to use for industrial pitch roofs on truss
regards
LJU

[dlpdi5b]

I just made a thin flat material and used a model pattern to make linework to simulate the corrugations. I didn't actually model them.

[ljupadhyay]

Thanks for attemting Dlister. But I need model. There is no such roof available even in SEEk so where I may search ?

[Mike Hardy-Brown]

Hi ljupadhyay

Go to Shaun's blog, he has just done a Quantified Profiled roof sheeting explanation using Structural framing.

http://revitfamilies.blogspot.com/2008/08/quantify-profiled-roof-sheeting.html

[ljupadhyay]

Thanks Hardy,
I just visited Family Man. A nice blog. I shall try my self
LJU

[ljupadhyay]

I atempted the proceedure as per Shaun's blog but that not works. I think I m missing some thing. here I attach the profile & family for sweep . Can any one find the way to complete it ?

[jsteinhauer]

I atempted the proceedure as per Shaun's blog but that not works. I think I m missing some thing. here I attach the profile & family for sweep . Can any one find the way to complete it ?

Try building in a void to your roof structure. I did something similar to this for a vertical corrugation on a wall surface. I was unable to do a vertical sweep on my wall, so someone suggested using a void. Only thing you need to worry about is performance of the model. Small residential, no problem. 100,000+ sqft. building, probably not worth modeling throughout the entire project...

If you do a search for my name &/or vertical corrugation will get you some helpful information.

Thanks,
Jeff S.

[jsteinhauer]

Try building in a void to your roof structure. I did something similar to this for a vertical corrugation on a wall surface. I was unable to do a vertical sweep on my wall, so someone suggested using a void. Only thing you need to worry about is performance of the model. Small residential, no problem. 100,000+ sqft. building, probably not worth modeling throughout the entire project...

If you do a search for my name &/or vertical corrugation will get you some helpful information.

Thanks,
Jeff S.

There is an attached image

[ljupadhyay]

Can it be made with Roof by Face ? First creating a corrugated surface . I see no other way to create in Revit. This type of roofs are in industrial practice throuh out the world, but Revit ignores it.
LJU

[jsteinhauer]

Can it be made with Roof by Face ? First creating a corrugated surface . I see no other way to create in Revit. This type of roofs are in industrial practice throuh out the world, but Revit ignores it.
LJU

Here is a corrugated metal panel profile. I didn't have very much luck with this though. But then again I was using it for walls with voids.

Jeff S.

[ljupadhyay]

Profile is already shown above as per Shan's "Revit Family Man" tutorial but tutorial is not properly explained & so not working. Can any one try or explain that tutorial ?
LJU

[Shaun v Rooyen]

I have had so many comments on this form of modeling from the blog. The Beam system tool Rocks. There is no end to what you can do with this tool. I use this tool for Sunscreens, Horizontal/Vertical louvres . It allows me to develop custom components without the hassle of making complicated array families and it's not that I don't know how to make families thats for sure. These families are often heavy and cumbersome and add bloat to the file. System families such as the Beam Systems, are far lighter and keep the file sizes down. It is also easier to teach the average end user a beam system tool as apposed to how to do complicated families. The two images (screens and a lean to roof) are built entirely using Beam systems. I removed all complicated families for the client and replaced with smart system families. It cut this model down from 80mb down to 45mb. It's not bad for a 12000sqm warehouse and 4000sqm office component.

If its not working for you, you may "wanna" check your profile that the the gap in the sheeting is no less than 2mm. seems as Revit doesn't wanna deal with very small tolerances.

So, here is an example file as a Rough Guide. There is a schedule as well this took me no more than 15 minutes so it is very rough but if you spent the time on it you could get this to work spot on for you.

[ljupadhyay]

Hi Shan
I was just waiting for you. I have made profile same as per yor tutorial In beam sytem teplate I deleted the extrusion, now for profile sweep I have to set path. I want to know that path & it's length. Your sample file is good for seeing but user like me need the proceedure so that i can creat it my self. Will u please look in my attached 2008 files & guide me to create a corrugated roof ?
Regards

[ljupadhyay]

I made the attached as per shaun's tutorial, but the loaded profile was not working. I dont know why ? So I draw the profile & made the sweep. The same is attached here
LJU

[EddieS]

If its not working for you, you may "wanna" check your profile that the the gap in the sheeting is no less than 2mm. seems as Revit doesn't wanna deal with very small tolerances.

I can confirm that this does work.
But Revit will only allow a minimum profile thickness of 0.8mm (I have confirmed this)

I created the sheeting using the Beam family with the profile, this is useful for beam systems.
I also created the sheeting using a "Line Based" family but could only insert the sheeting during beam creation not with in the beam system.

I will add to this post with a procedure document for each.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
EddieS

[ljupadhyay]

Thanks Eduardo
Waiting for your proceedure. Think about sheduling also.

LJU