How To Adjust Roof Overhang In Revit

This four minute friday will show how to adjust roof eave edges.

How to adjust roof overhang in revit.

Now the first condition we ll do is the adjust overhang. Extend into wall to core. We will be editing roofs using the adjust eaves command inside revit to control how the eave edges are aligned. Select each boundary line and set the value in properties or in option bar.

You can set an overhang on roofs created with pick walls. Use this method to resize roofs that were created by footprint or by face. When you create a roof in revit using the select walls tool in the options bar you will see an option with a checkbox see the left red colored arrow in the image below. Change the roof overhang.

Then select the line style you want to represent the roof overhang in the view. You ll notice i m selecting these and pushing them back so we get the same amount of one foot drop. If i accept that it. In the properties dialog box for the view you want to see the overhang lines in set the underlay drop down to be the level on which the roof was created.

This post explores the effect of different types of wall finish materials on the overhang of the roof. 6 add vertical or by face openings. Now the next step is to select the linework tool from the modify tab view panel. The way this works is you first pick the eave line you want to keep or adjust to and then you pick the ones you want to align to it.

Use pick walls if you want the roof to automatically adjust when walls are moved. Resize the roof using shape handles.