Revit Roof Crickets

Align one edge of the roof to the reference plane 4 copy the roof paste it in the same place.

Revit roof crickets.

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. Many thanks kind regards ian. Eric wing dives into flat roofs first showing how to pitch insulation to roof drains add crickets and warp roofs to fit sloped framing.

This thread is archived. Any ideas on how this can be achieved. How can i create this type of roof cricket. The cricket would direct the rain to pass the chimney on either side.

How do you construct a roof cricket. Jun 15 2017 explore anibal carbonell s board roof cricket on pinterest. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. For example on the back side of a chimney as the roof slopes down on it.

This would be done simply as a small dormer roof joined to the main roof. 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. I e if the roof surface. 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.

The industry rule of thumb is that the cricket panel slope should be twice that of the roof surface slope. Thanks edit for broken link. Similar to a lot of elements in revit there are many ways to go about flat roofs. 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.

This course covers the topic of adding roofs roof framing and detailing with revit.