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Can any body tell me how can I get the roof to join? Any idea why the roof line of the the bay windows do not show? Any ideas how to do a cricket roof or at least show the area of the cricket roof in the floor plan view? See screen shots. Any one has a good link or knows about a good tutorial creating roof or complex roof? Thank you
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I don't know yet if you could do that like in "One piece" but use the "Join/Unjoin Roof" tool.... ONE PIECE, more or less like you want..
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When I try to join roof the a warning comes out and says that is missing the taget face, see screen shots. I played around with this changing the slope and no success, any suggestions?
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the two roofs are at the same height???
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I fixed the gap in the Rf 1 screen shot above by playing around with the slope, see screen shot. However, how do I create a cricket in the roof valleys and how do I show the roof lines of the bay windows as your example, can't find the way to accomplish that.
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is the same top plate 10' high is that what you mean? I am sending a screen shot of the floor plan, can you draw a roof with this plan layout? all the walls are 10' in hight. Thank you
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Did you use the "Join/Unjoin roof" tool??? like you can see, I do this with no measures, only with your sketch and in one piece, why don't you try, I have only one problem to solve like you can see in the image attached....
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Typhoon, when you say you created the roof "in one piece" do you mean creating the roof as a single entity. not using the roof join/unjoing tool? The reason why I created the roof as separate entities was because I tried to it in a single sketch but when I clicked finish roof sketch a warning showed up telling something that the roof cannot be done..... But I am going to try it again, again, and again until I get it right. Thank you for all your input.
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Typhoon, Finally after several tries I was able to create the roof as a whole entity, I kept on getting a warning after clicking finish roof in the sketch mode "the roof print cannot be done". Anyways I did it there is only one area that doesn't look right, see screen shot. I think I am going to break the roof in that area and create separate entities then will try to join them. One question, how do you set up the roof slope to be 6/12 in the sketch mode. I am using the generic: 9" roof that is provided in RA2009 so when I pick walls the default slope is 9/12 after finishing sketching the roof I change the slope of each line segment to 6/12. Is there a faster way to do this?
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"so when I pick walls the default slope is 9/12 after finishing sketching the roof I change the slope of each line segment to 6/12. Is there a faster way to do this?" - Yeah, when you are in the Sketch mode in the roof creation, go to the left menu in "Roof Properties" and change the "Slope" parameter, this change every slope to EVERY lines.... you don't need to change one by one....
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Thank you Typhoon. I will explain my mistake so other revit users that are reading this thread can learn from it. In the roof sketch mode I had one or two line segments with different slope and when I looked into the roof properties the parameter to change the slope didn't show. So in orther to change the slope in a single click all the line segmentes in the sketch mode must have equal slope and then go in the roof properties and the change slope parameter will appear.
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I have found that you cannot use the Join Roofs tool if any part of the roof to be joined is overlapping the main roof. It can be quite frustrating. I had to create a similar cricket for a project and I ended up just figuring out on my own where the edges of the cricket would be (what angles the edges would run in plan) and then I drew a 4-sided diamond shape to represent the cricket in plan and used slope arrows to define the slope. That kept me from having to have tiny little slope-defining lines on each side. _______________ roofing contractors
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Braccali wrote: "I have found that you cannot use the Join Roofs tool if any part of the roof to be joined is overlapping the main roof...." This is not true. If the roof intersect, they will join.
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