Roof Crickets Revit

This would be done simply as a small dormer roof joined to the main roof.

Roof crickets revit. This thread is archived. Thanks edit for broken link. From flat roofs to fun free form roofs and everything in between hip gable mansard dutch hip combination and gambrel. I e if the roof surface.

New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Many thanks kind regards ian. Any ideas on how this can be achieved. For example on the back side of a chimney as the roof slopes down on it.

My two favorite approaches to creating a flat roof cricket in revit are either creating an adaptive component or modifying the sub elements of the roof. The cricket would direct the rain to pass the chimney on either side. Summary 1 unjoin the roof 2 create a reference plane 1 away from the edge of the second roof 3 edit the footprint of the unjoined roof. Roof surface roof surface slope cricket width cricket length cricket panel slope cricket valley slope cricket angle distance between points 3 and 4 cricket angle 2 the manufactured slope of the cricket panel.

I know some of you may be thinking that the modify sub elements tool is like voodoo black magic. I m trying to create the roof cricket shown in this image in revit. It will place in the new construction phase 5 edit the footprint of the new roof. Align one edge of the roof to the reference plane 4 copy the roof paste it in the same place.

Additionally people get extremely creative when it comes to the crickets on flat roofs. This course covers the topic of adding roofs roof framing and detailing with revit. The industry rule of thumb is that the cricket panel slope should be twice that of the roof surface slope.