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Majlo

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Hi all!

I have a slight problem with my roof. It's a concrete roof with thermal and other layers above ... As I'm working on concrete plans, I need to show only the concrete part of the roof. But if I copy the roof with all layers and then change it's structure to only bottom concrete, the bottom face of roof moves up. I've tried the same thing with a simple rectangular roof with only two slopes and that didn't happen. Now, I wonder if this is because of the strange angles of my roof or did I miss something?

On bottom picture you can see my problem. You can also look at my rvt file.

I hope that it can be done the way i want

Thanks and greetings from Slovenia!

Milos

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OK, the revit file didn't go through... so you can save and look it from this link: http://www.bim.si/revitcity/roof_help_revitcity.rvt

(or manually from here: http://www.bim.si/revitcity/ )

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This is one very bizarre roof my friend is this a pretend building or a real project?

I've never seen a roof formed by sculpting the perimeter by using a roof opening around the outside. Very creative I have to say but WOW where did you learn how to do that? 

Not sure if this will help but I noticed the 'roof with all layers' has both layers in the core and both are structure [1]. That's a no no. I would move the top layer out of the core and make it substrate [2].

Other than that you can just lower one of the roofs by playing with the 'Base offset from level' property of the roof.

And yes, my guess is the roofs are at different heights because of the way the roofs are created.

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dgcad, yes I know it's a strange roof - tell it to the architect hehe... I did the cut because I'm interested only in concrete, otherwise the roof extends outside wall bounderies... but like I said, I'm working on the concrete plans, and the concrete plate of the roof goes just to the outside wall bounderies...

I've tried the trick (well it's not really a trick, as it should be done that way...but) with moving the other layer outside the core, but it's still not working. It's interesting that in some places (or some slopes) do match, when I change only to the concrete roof, but on other places roof moves... really strange... And yes, I also think that there is no other way, because of the "crazy" roof layout...

Just life, right!

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This is why I like revitcity - you come with a question and you give a good tip as well to somebody...

 best regards, Milos

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