Roof By Extrusion

There are certainly other videos in this course that had us extruding a roof but none that had us actually doing it for our main roof suppose you have a roof that is impossible to create in a plan view that s where roof by extrusion comes into play what we re going to be doing in this video is create a reference plane to start our roof then we re going to sketch out our radial profile once we re finished we re going to extrude the roof to the other side of our.

Roof by extrusion.

So first of all let s go ahead and create our reference plan. Click architecture tab build panel roof drop down roof by extrusion. Key points the roof by extrusion tool is used to create wave form type roofs you create a sketch of the upper profile of your roof in a side view i e. The highest level in the project is selected by default.

Display an elevation 3d or section view. Within revit the roof by extrusuion tool is used in an elevatation or section view as opposed to the roof by footprint tool which is used in a plan view. We also need to use a refrence plane upopn which we can sketch the side profile for our extrusion. In the roof reference level and offset dialog select a value for level.