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Friday, July 26, 2013

Revit Tutorial - Standing Seam Metal Roof

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This is a cool little tip that some of you may find useful.  Basically, the idea stemmed from wanting a quick way to represent standing seam metal roof ridges in three dimensions.  By default, the Revit material for standing seam metal roof has a surface pattern and an image with a bump map.  Most of the time this is a sufficient representation of a standing metal seam roof: the data is there, the graphic representation is there, and your construction documents will look fine!

So, why bother modeling the seams in 3D?  Well, for rendering!  The default material for standing seam roofs does not look good at all rendered... Not one bit. I am going to show you a very fast way to create standing seams ribs with the roof you ALREADY CREATED!


The idea is simple, you already took the time to model all of the ridges, valleys, hips, etc... why not use them?  The video below explains the method I used to create standing seam metal ribs:

Click here to watch Revit Standing Seam Metal Roofs in 6 Minutes via YouTube.
Click here to watch Revit Standing Seam Metal Roofs in 6 Minutes via Screencast.






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jose · 609 weeks ago

How nice man! thanks for posting this, I did a LONG search for something similar and found nothing so i ended up superimposing a hatch in my final render.
I will be sure to use this next time though. Thanks again!
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HyunWoo Kim · 608 weeks ago

nice posting!
i didn't know this new feature of Revit 2014.
i used this tip in other way.(placing roof tiles) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-1NnkFC3fU&fe...
thanks.
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amolese · 593 weeks ago

cannot be used for any curved roof eg a barrel roof as the sloped glazing is a flat surface. Very nice tip but limited.
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TheRevitKid 72p · 593 weeks ago

Oh... but it can be! It's not perfect but I have used for a barrel vault... I will have to post my example.
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TomH · 557 weeks ago

Please post this example! I'm trying to apply a standing seam to a barrel roof as well.
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adamsawyer · 494 weeks ago

Thanks for your demonstration, I tried this and looked good but doesn't work for the project that I am working on. I am trying to get standing seem metal roofing on a gambrel roof. This method doesn't work with the two pitches of roof, do you have any suggestions?
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Tuấn · 480 weeks ago

Thanks for your demonstration
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