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Creating extrusion roofs

Creating extrusion roofs - Revit Tutorial

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Creating extrusion roofs

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- [Voiceover] For many of the traditional forms of roofs like hips, gables, shed roofs, a footprint roof will achieve the job quite nicely such as this example right here, but in cases where you want to do a barrel vault or some certain kinds of canopies and so on, you might choose to use a different form of roof, an extrusion roof. So in this example here, on the backside of this building here I want to add a canopy and I'm gonna use the extrusion roof for that. Now I can hold my Shift key down and drag the wheel to spin this around. I can also use the view cube to help me do that so what I'm going to do is click the top corner of this view cube right here and that will spin the model around in orient and it's this surface right here that I want to work on. Now I could work directly in 3D but sometimes it's a little easier to make the sketch if you're looking right at that plane so instead I'm actually going to open up the west elevation and I want to draw the shape of this extrusion…

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