Metal Standing Seam Roof option

[Arnel Aguel]

You know guys im a fan of modelling whenever i feel necessary specially if i intend to do rendering in a particular view. For standing seam metal roofing i normally model them unless i intend to render it with far viewpoint then drafting, texturing and bump mapping will just be fine but if i want a close up view of my render, texture and bump mapping is not good enough.

I did one project which uses standing metal seam roof. I modelled in ADT and that took me hell a lot of time just to finish modelling. Here is the project MY IMAGE

Since we are now using Revit i said to myself i would not model that type of roof again but if the design ask you to, you have no choice. I tried to figure out an efficient way of modelling this type of roof. I used in place sweep oh boy its like modelling in ADT.

I figured out one nifty trick for modelling standing seam metal roof by using slope glazing. Here it is:

1) Create a roof with slope as normal
2) Change the family type to slope glazing
3) Create grid lines that correspond to the center to center spacing of you roof seam
4) Create mullions at the seam (grid line) location. You can edit the size of the mullion (seam) as per you desired size.
5) Change the panel material from glass to default roof.
6) Voila you have a standing seam metal roof.

I'm not sure whether this is worth to be in the Tips & Tricks section

[beegee]

Arnel,
Thats a good tip for anyone that does need to model to whole roof in detail.
Yes, you should post it on the tips forum.

Re your comment about alternate approaches, when that detail is not required, there are some nice rendereings HERE with some methods you may be interested in.

[Steve_Stafford]

Interesting idea Arnel...you're a clever one...as you can see, I moved your post here.

[beegee]

Arnel,

I just took this tip for a test drive.

When I attempt to change the panel material from glass to default roof ( or metal roof ), I get the warning " Deleting Grid Lines that are part of an Element that no longer supports a Curtain Grid ". Revit then proceeds to delete all the mullions and leaves me with a flat metal roof.

So, what am I doing wrong ?

[Arnel Aguel]

Beegee, it works great with me. I don't get that kind of error that you have.

Anybody else have tried this process and did you get any error?

[Steve_Stafford]

Tried it too, it worked for me BeeGee. Here's an image.

[funkman]

beegee - I get the same problem as you

[beegee]

Good ! Well no, not, .... but maybe its a southern hemisphere thing ??

I tried it again after SS's post, but got the same negative result.

( Could it be the template ? )

[funkman]

yeah, well I originally thought it may have had someting to do with the edge conditions - finishing all the mullions in the process, but nope.

Perhaps we are doing things upside down, or is it inside out....ummmm round and round....upside down you'll turn into me...do dooo dooo instinctively ops:

oi, too much red last night

Uh huh , and more quotes :-
And who knows which is which and who is who
Up and Down
And in the end it's only round and round and round ... beegee ( well Roger Waters really )

[beegee]

OK, problem solved ( with a little help from a friend ).

I was attempting the change the roof to metal, but you need to change the system panel ( glass ) family to metal .

This requires a new admonishment to the forum, .. such as ( Get the sleep out of your eyes ! ) directed solely to me BTW, not Funkman.