Roof Crickets Revit

For example on the back side of a chimney as the roof slopes down on it.

Roof crickets revit.

How do you construct a roof cricket. This would be done simply as a small dormer roof joined to the main roof. Any ideas on how this can be achieved. I m trying to create the roof cricket shown in this image in revit.

Eric wing dives into flat roofs first showing how to pitch insulation to roof drains add crickets and warp roofs to fit sloped framing. How can i create this type of roof cricket. 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. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast.

I e if the roof surface. Many thanks kind regards ian. I know some of you may be thinking that the modify sub elements tool is like voodoo black magic. The industry rule of thumb is that the cricket panel slope should be twice that of the roof surface slope.

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. Align one edge of the roof to the reference plane 4 copy the roof paste it in the same place. 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. Thanks edit for broken link.

From flat roofs to fun free form roofs and everything in between hip gable mansard dutch hip combination and gambrel. It will place in the new construction phase 5 edit the footprint of the new roof. This course covers the topic of adding roofs roof framing and detailing with revit.