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I have followed the steps in creating standing seam metal roof by changing the roof type to sloped glazing and then adding the curtain grid lines and so on...... I now have a roof that i created as a flat roof and added points to pull the slope into the direction i needed to give it the slope that it calls for....But if i try to change this to a slope glazing roof to add a curtain grid system the roof just goes flat without any grips to grab and pull. I am doing this for a company that I am interning for and I am the only one that uses Revit here for our model presentation purposes and everyone else is still stuck in ADT....so any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
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When I do a standing seam roof, I model it as a flat object, then I hadd an array of a parametric "seam" family. I think this works a lot easier.
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not sure what you mean?
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I work for a metal building manufacturer. When i show our standing seam or rib panel roof, i just model a roof like normal and make the material the color i want. Then add 2 set of lines with colors one slightly darker and slightly lighter than the roof color. keeping these 2 lines fairly narrow and beside each other giving it a shadow effect of the ribs. plus that way any changes to the roof the lines follow along automatic.
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My parametric "seam" family is simply a generic, face based (horizontal) extrusion that once in place can be stretched to length. The extrusion shape is just a simple rectangle. I then array that across the roof at the sam spacing.
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I drew the lines and it looks great....but they dont show up when i go to render?
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Make sure those lines are drawn on the material and not just detail lines drawn on the roof.
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I actually ended up mking those lines into a family and extruding them up a 1/2" and it looks exactly how i want it to....Thanks everyone!!
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To add linework as CYDER36 says, you must have a workplane so that you can have 3D lines. A real pain to do if the roof is sloping and if you have more than one side. I have also had problems with 3D lines actually showing in 3D rendered views. They don't because there really is nothing there. If I wanted something like a wire, I had to use a 3D sweep with a profile that had some size to it. I would do as I suggested earlier ... but if you do get CYDER36's process to work, please let us know.
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It did work.....I used the technique of turning my sloped roofs into a sloped glazing roof and then adding a curtain grid system and the mulions as needed and for the sloped roofs that i created out of pulling grips on a flat roof....i used CDYER36's technique and drew lines on the roofs plane where necessary and then created those into a family and extruded them 1" to look like the mullions on the other roofs
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if you look at the image i attached in the previous post you can't really tell a difference in which roofs i used which technique on
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Here is what I have managed to do. I just load it into my project and I can assign the length I need or I can just pull the grip to the length needed. I usually will do a group array to fill this across my roof. Hope this helps.
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I prefer to use the "Sloped Glazing" system in the roofs....
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I spent some time last Friday trying to figure out the use of slope glazing with mullions to do what we are discussing here. I am using 2010 and I tried following Revit's Help I could not figure it out. I will do some more searching, but does anyone know a site that has a tutorial that I can use to figure out how to do this?
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Mars, i post here some videos about this issue several time in the past, it's very easy, see this link: http://www.revitcity.com/forums.php?action=viewthread&thread_id=13664 it's about a "Deck" but the system is the same to create roofs by "Sloped Glazing", i don't know if the links for the videos still work but i think you gonna understand....
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