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Creating footprint roofs

Creating footprint roofs - Revit Tutorial

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Creating footprint roofs

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- [Voiceover] In this movie we're gonna talk about the footprint roof. Now, Revit offers us a few different ways to create roofs, but the footprint roof is perhaps the simplest one and its a sketch based object that you create much the same way as you would create a floor. So, typically you're gonna wanna work in a floor plan. And probably makes sense to be in a roof plan, so let me double click the high roof plan here to go to that view, and then on the architechture tab we've got our roof button right here. It is a split button with a drop down and the option we want is roof by footprint but that's also the default for this command. So you can either click the button right here, or choose it off the menu. Either one will get you into this sketch. Now this is sketch mode - the model canvas grays out, the ribbon tab turns to that tinted green color. We have the mode panel with the finish and cancel buttons. And it defaults to boundary line here and pick walls here. Now we're gonna…

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