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blackojacko

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I am in no way an expirienced Revit user. I have been playing around with the program for a few months and thats about it. I only know what I have taught myself, so any tips and or hints are appreciated.

My instructor has asked me to build his brother house in revit. I have completed most everything besides the roof and furnishings. The roof has proposed many problems. 

1. I am trying to get a gable, or that is what i believe it is called, on a flat side of the house. Normally this wouldnt be a problem as you can simply define the slopes of the roof on the sides but unfortunately its not thath simple as the roof is not fully consumed by the gabel.

2. The second roof (second floor roof), cuts off a wall that it shouldn't and leaves a large hole in the wall.  

3. As I do not know how any information on putting exterior paneling for the walls would be appreciated.

Thank you to anyone who does help and any helpful hints are welcome. I am using Revit 2012

Excuse the pictures orientation. They may or may not be upside down.

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Take one of these views and add some notes and arrows to point to your problems.  Is the 3D roof what you have in Revit? 

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if your trying to fill that gap in the double gable from the roof to the wall, i usually created another roof there, then join the 2.

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There is the edited picture with the problems circled. I realize the roof's angles are not identical and that should be ignored by future posters. 

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keyaggie

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create a separate gable for the front, then join it to the hip you currently have.  After that use the joined lines and

edit the roofs,

so they dont overlap.   As for the gap, see my previous post .

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so to fix the hole in the wall, just create another identical roof ontop of the other one?

and how are you supposed to join the two roofs? does it simply prompt you to do so when the second roof is finalized? 

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mansell5

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in reality that hole in the wall would be a piece of infill spandril panel.

why not make it as such , namely an in place family.

to make the lower gable , edit your roof outline and provide a short length of wall coming out to front say 10mm, then you can apply a slope to it and form a gable.

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For the hole, either pull the wall over from the right and sketch the wall to remove the lower portion there or add another wall that is in this area attached at the top to the roof and sketched on the bottom.

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I have tried what you guys said to fix the roof and it either makes a gable that goes through the whole house or it gives me error and then deletes the whole roof. My time on this project is running low so speedy relplies are appreciated :D

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keyaggie

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I usually create a small wall on top of the main wall and then attach to the roof.  Think like your actually going to build it,

use your ceiling view and a section to make sure the wall align so they also attach an eliminate join lines.

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