Roof Crickets Revit

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

Roof crickets revit. This course covers the topic of adding roofs roof framing and detailing with revit. I know some of you may be thinking that the modify sub elements tool is like voodoo black magic. I e if the roof surface. From flat roofs to fun free form roofs and everything in between hip gable mansard dutch hip combination and gambrel.

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. How do you construct a roof cricket. For example on the back side of a chimney as the roof slopes down on it. This thread is archived.

The cricket would direct the rain to pass the chimney on either side. 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. It will place in the new construction phase 5 edit the footprint of the new roof. Many thanks kind regards ian.

The industry rule of thumb is that the cricket panel slope should be twice that of the roof surface slope. Additionally people get extremely creative when it comes to the crickets on flat roofs. Eric wing dives into flat roofs first showing how to pitch insulation to roof drains add crickets and warp roofs to fit sloped framing. Any ideas on how this can be achieved.

New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. 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. This would be done simply as a small dormer roof joined to the main roof.