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Hello all, just another quick query regarding the home I'm currently working on ( http://www.geocities.com/simmakkinen/SingleFamilyHome-04.html ),
I'm having trouble making the roof slope to one side only (as illustrated). I've tried editing the roof once complete and dragging it here and there yet it just won't go where I want it to go! can anyone offer any help?
many thanks
Eddie
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I have difficulties to understand what you want to have just showing a facade of your house. You better show at least two facades and some sections.
Or/And you better upload an image from Revit showing what you are aiming at.
Perhaps this is what you want to have? Have a look at the image. It is done with two slopes on opposite sides and a slope arrow in between.
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I was a little too ambitious describing Roof1. You do not have to use any slope arrow. Just make sloopes on three sides.
Here is another try - Roof2 - that "curves gently". Perhaps this is what you are trying to get?
It is made with Modelling > Create > Solid > Extrude and then Void > Extrude
Have a look at the image.
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in a way, bot of those are what I'm afte, have a look at the images I up loaded to my Geocities site:
Rendering 1 - http://www.geocities.com/simmakkinen/NMFH02_roof1.jpg
Rendering 2 - http://www.geocities.com/simmakkinen/NMFH02_roof2.jpg
(both above are drafts done in Maya)
Rendering 3 - http://www.geocities.com/simmakkinen/SFH02_3D-View.jpg
Iso Plan - http://www.geocities.com/simmakkinen/SFH02_roof3.jpg
(both above from Revit)
I hope that gives you a better picture of what I want
thanks for your help
Eddie
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If it isn't possible to have the roof overhanging so much, not to worry but that kind of profile/overall shape is what I'm after 
cheers
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I hope I have got what you are looking for.
Go to Modelling > Create
Choose Solid > Sweep
And then on the menu Tools > Work Plane > Set Work Plane
and Pick a Plane
and I clicked the facade and got a work plane for the path.
I choose Sketch 2D Path and draw a line
then Finish Path
and click Sketch Profile
and you have to sketch a proflle for the roof.
Hope you have got it!
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Just a little more tips!
After choosing Modelling > Create
choose Roofs
And then the roof is made you can use Attach to attach the walls you have selected to the roof by clicking the roof.
To take a part away from the roof use Void > Extrude before you Finish the Family with the roof.
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I hope I have got what you are looking for.
Go to Modelling > Create
Choose Solid > Sweep
And then on the menu Tools > Work Plane > Set Work Plane
and Pick a Plane
and I clicked the facade and got a work plane for the path.
I choose Sketch 2D Path and draw a line
then Finish Path
and click Sketch Profile
and you have to sketch a proflle for the roof.
Hope you have got it!
hmm I tried all this but I only seemed to get a line on one side of the building and a square in the middle of it...no roof!
Looking at the bldg I'm doing, which facade would you pick the plane on?
which view would you use to draw the path/profile....it tells me to do them in certain elevation views, and since there's only one view i can do this in, it won't let me skip to other views to draw the whole thing.
I've tried drawing "a line" for the profile and path, but it says "line open at one end" and when I draw a chain or box it places it in the middle of the floor I tried sketching the profile and path over the whole area/walls I want to cover but it says "sweep cannot be created"
I'm baffled and a tad bemused with a little bit of annoyed thrown in too...I've attached an image to give you an idea of what I'm getting when I DO get any results.
sorry to sound like a complete idiot but I spose its the only way I'm going to learn this!
Eddie
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if it makes it any easier for the both of us (which I'm hoping it will), here's a .rar file with images of the elevations and floorplan for level 2. If you can, draw a blue line where you'd do the path and a red one for the profile.
hopefully that should make both our lives more easy and let us keep our hair for a little longer! lol
cheers for all your help
Eddie
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Hallo again!
I have made a new tutorial and I hope you will understand a bit better now...
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umm that really helped..I did all of that and got the shape I wanted and placement was perfect...BUT......when I'd done making the roof and went to click 'finish family' it told me it couldn't make it!!! I tried your 3-point arc with the top arc 9.5m wide at an angle of 46* and the lower arc same length at 23*
I've tried with the roof overlapping and not overlapping the wall edges, same result, 'cannot make type - Roof 1' - Fromthe pictures in your tutorial it seems obvious that you clicked 'finish family' since you were able to go back to the main modelling tab on the design bar.
what am I doing wrong?
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You do not say if Revit gives you some message...
The first thing I am thinking about is that you have missed something when doing the Profile.
You can not have intersecting lines pro example. And all the lines must be interconnected.
Perhaps you can try with a simplier shape eg only a rectangle - no 3-point arc. And if that is alright you can do the Profile a little more complicated.
I suppose that you use just a straigt line for the Path. You must have a straight line for the Path!!!
Because if you are using a spline or ellipse for doing the Path you will get this message:
Sweep cannot have a path with ellipse or spline segments and a profile with non-straight lines.
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The only message Revit gives me is "Cannot Create Type - Roof 1" there are a few sub-headers saying "Roofs 1 : ID 114076" but that's about it. Do you think it could be a software fault?
I tried as you suggested with several other types of lines (straight, box, arc through 2 points)
here's an image showing you as far as I can get, after this, the only thing I can do is click 'finish family' and wait for the error message
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The only message Revit gives me is "Cannot Create Type - Roof 1" there are a few sub-headers saying "Roofs 1 : ID 114076" but that's about it. Do you think it could be a software fault?
I tried as you suggested with several other types of lines (straight, box, arc through 2 points)
here's an image showing you as far as I can get, after this, the only thing I can do is click 'finish family' and wait for the error messageShit!
Your image looks fine to me so I do not really understand,
My suggestion is that you use File > New to start a new project file(.rvt-file)
and have a try in that one.
I have looked in Help for error messages but it does not say anything.
And I pasted your error message into Google but found nothing.
If you serch in Google for - Revit error sweep - you get a lot of links
but I did not find anything good...
I have another suggestion a bit stupid but if anything else helps.
You dont need to create a roof ! You can choose whatever you want eg Entourage.
And have a try. If you succed you cannot attach the walls to the entourage
but you can edit the profile of the walls so it fits to the roof(entourage)
That was a bit of a stupid suggestion but I think you have to experiment...
I do not understand - everything looks fine on the image... but... shit!
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