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As a newbie my first project is to try and recreate a house I did in AutoCAD in Revit. Any ideas how to add a portico into a roof line? I have a few texts on this but they are very vague and dont show the technique to do this. Any help would be appreciated. I can email or attach my drawing if needed as a reference. Thanking you in advance. Great site by the way.
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"Any ideas how to add a portico into a roof line?" - Like what??? images of what you really want....
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Sorry for the late reply, my internet was down. I will attach a pdf if this helps to clarify what I am trying to do.
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Hi, see this: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=27HUN15H
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Thankyou so much Typhoon. The tutorial you posted was so helpful and I appreciate you giving me a couple of options of how to create a portico. All I can say is YOUR A LEGEND! Thanks again.
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Thanks Joeda, i'm glad you solve the problem but I'M NOT A LEGEND....lol BUT Will Smith is....
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lol great movie by the way! Just wanted to say thanks.
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Ok Im still having trouble creating my roof as per my AutoCAD drawing. Can anyone direct me to any good tutorials on creating a roof? Once again any help would be appreciated.
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What kind of problems do you have with the roofs??? What are you trying to do and you can't??? images of what do you want... the best tutorials you have are the HELP menu and the tutorials: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=11091739 If you provide what do you want I can make some videos to explain how you can do that...
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Thanks Typhoon appreciate your willingness to help. I know Im new to this so I thought Id start with a pretty easy project. I am getting quite frustrated with something that I know is very easy to do, but Im missing some of the concepts. The basics of creating a roof I understand (as I have a few revit textbooks Ive been working through). But my roof just doesnt seem to work out correctly. I obviously have to modify the one that is created in revit when using the 'Roof by Footprint'. Anyway I have attached a pdf of the house I am trying to create. All of the roof works fine except for the front part, being the portico and the roof line to the right of the portico. (I am using a offset of 600mm for the roof). Thanks.
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Hi, see this: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=87CLQFDA
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Try doing the portico part seperately as a roof by extrusion. Then join it to the "main" roof. The other option is to make a flat roof and add the lines and adjust the points individually. This is a little more time consuming (as you have to calculate out the height of each off the points..should be easy since you have done this in autocad) but you will get ridges and valleys exactally where you want them.
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Typoon thankyou so much. I dont know why I didnt think to just draw the outline by the 'Lines' command when creating the roof (mainly because I didnt know you could do that!). The way it explains it in the textbook that I have is to hover the mouse over one of the walls, hit the tab key (which selects the outline of the roof), then hit 'Finish Roof'. Some of the roof wasnt right so I tried unchecking the 'defines slope' option for some of the walls, but it just wouldnt work! I will try the way you have showed me and let you know how I go. Thanks for your time. ABiberston, thanks for your tip aswell, will give it a go. I want to learn so much about this program that alternative methods are definately welcomed. Im sure some methods will prove useful under different circumstances.
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Im resurrecting an old thread which I started years ago. Would you believe Im getting more errors with my roof line for a portico.
Can someone tell me why there is a roof error in the pics attached when I use the roof by footprint tool.
thanks.
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Your eave heights are not the same.
You have to be careful using a combination of sketched and offset lines - sketch it all from the eave limit.
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