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The "face" in Roof by Face is a facet of a massing model. Masses are different from other Revit object, in that they are just undifferentiated geometric forms (no materials, etc.). They are turned off by default, but will turn on when you go to create one. They show up as tanslucent purple things.
1. Activate your massing tools menu -- along the left side of the screen, where all the tools sets are arranged by function, if you right-click, Massing will be one of the options. Go to that tool set.
2. Create Mass. After you give your mass a name (say, "Roof Shape" , you'll get the usual selection of modeling tools. I used Solid Form > Solid Blend to model the mass I posted yesterday. The easiest way to do this would be to look at your model from the gable end elevation, pick a work plane that is parallel with the gable end, and draw the top of the blend as the shape of the gable wall at the highest end, and the bottom of the blend as the shape of the gable wall at the lowest end. Click Finish Blend. Go to a 3-D view and make sure the mass is situated the way you want it -- you can edit it like any solid.
3. Roof by Face -- This is easiest in a 3-D view, so you can see both faces of the roof at once. Select the two faces of the mass that you'd like to turn into the roof, then up near the top of the screen, click the Create Roof button. There's the roof! It can be difficult to modify the edges of the roof (Rafter Cut, etc.), but you can get around that with a fascia sweep of the appropriate profile. You can turn off masses in the View menu.
4. In case of a required change in roof shape, turn mass viewing back on, select the Roof Shape mass from Step 2, click Edit, and reshape the mass appropriately. Then, select the roof, and you'll get a button near the top of the screen which says Update Roof (or somethign similar). Click this button, and the roof will fit itself to the modified mass shape.
Wow, that was wordy. Let me know if anything still isn't clear.
Good luck,
Erin
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or...
you could just do a roof by extrusion, and use blends.
easy... 
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I eldados
That sounds easy but wht does it mean as I cannot find blends under extruded roof.
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Erin
Your instructions worked perfectly on the massing.
I am very grateful for your help and hjave cancelled the consultants appointment
Many thanks from accross the pond
terry
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sorry, I didn't mean roof by extrusion...
you can create family in place (or external if you wish) use solid blends, but you will need to set up your reference planes, i'm not infront of revit atm, so you'll have to play with it a bit
will check tomorrow at work.
(at my lunch break offcourse )
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Thanks eldados
Dont go to any bother loosing your lunch break. The answer from erin using massing were simply and solved my issue.
Many thanks and all the best
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