This guide provides the answers to the most common roof problems beginners face with revit.
How do you do a flat roof in revit.
Creates a roof using the building footprint to define its boundaries.
On the draw panel click pick walls.
On the properties palette set the underlay value to 01 store floor.
Click architecture tabbuild panelroof drop down roof by footprint.
Draw a flat roof.
If you choose not to move the roof to a different level revit notifies you later if the roof.
The revit interface is a bit unclear about constructing a flat roof but no roof is truly flat and creating a flat roof in revit allows the designer to annotate the roof without having to deal with the issues associated with the modeled hips and valleys of a low slope roof.
In the option bar make sure defines slope is deactivated before drawing the boundary.
You can also watch the video tutorial below if you prefer.
If you try to add a roof on the lowest level a dialog prompts you to move it to a higher level.
On the options bar set overhang to 0 and clear defines slope.
On the mode panel click finish to place the roof.
Create a sloped roof in revit step 1 draw your roof step 2 define the slope.
Want to create a flat roof.
1 remove slope to create flat roof.