Roof Framing and Sheathing | Day 27 – North Wing Modern Home Addition

 

In the final days of getting "water tight" we are framing and sheathing the roof!  Did we get it watertight within the 28 day goal I set...?  Tune in to find out!

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Revit Tutorial - Understanding Your Roof Eaves / Soffits

In my experience, the roof tool is still a mystery to many Revit users. Either they have only had to create flat roofs, they have been using extrusions, or they just haven't been using it correctly.  If you are one of these people, it's okay... You are not alone!

For the reasons mentioned above, roof tutorials are always the most searched on this blog.  I was demonstrating an eave detail to a colleague of mine when it was apparent that he had NO IDEA you could do what I was doing... That led me to this post.  A simple run down of the different eave (or soffit ) settings effect your roofs...

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Revit Tutorial - Standing Seam Metal Roof

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!