Overview
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Learn to build roofs with Revit: from flat roofs to crazy free-form roofs and everything in between (hip, gable, mansard, Dutch hip combination, and gambrel).
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Adding a flat-roof material
- Pitching insulation to roof drains
- Adding sloped framing
- Adding crickets
- Sloping flat roofs
- Building a hip roof
- Adding a gable
- Adding a sloping gable
- Creating a Dutch gable roof
- Creating a Dutch hip roof
- Adding a mansard roof
- Creating a gambrel roof
- Adding roof-edge dormers
- Adding custom eyebrow dormers
- Adding dormer walls
- Adding dormer openings
- Adding skylights and curbing
- Adding a flat fascia
- Creating and adding a custom fascia
- Adding the default soffit
- Adding an in-place fascia family
- Adding fascia returns at gable ends
- Adding a roof by extrusion
- Trimming an extruded roof
- Creating an in-place roof by blend
- Adding a roof by face
- Attaching columns to roofs
- Adding 2 x 10 sill plates
- Modifying a roof for structure
- Creating rafter-style framing
- Adding Howe trusses
- Modifying bottom-truss chords
- Cleaning truss connections
- Creating custom in-place trusses
- Detailing rake ends
- Truss detailing
- Valley details
- Wall attachment details
- Materials
- Next steps
