I came across this post about switching lighting families from wall hosted to face based and with a little tweak made it work for casework.
How to use roof by face in revit 2016.
You cannot select faces from different masses for the same roof.
This guide provides the answers to the most common roof problems beginners face with revit.
Want to create a flat roof.
Create roofs on any non vertical faces of a mass using the roof by face tool.
Looking forward to see what you come up with.
You can also watch the video tutorial below if you prefer.
In the drawing area select the roof face.
Drag the shape handles to extend the roof.
Shape handles are available for all non horizontal side surfaces.
In the previous tutorial we learn about creating roof in revit model.
Create roofs on any non vertical faces of a mass using the roof by face tool.
When you select the roof face roof shape handles display.
To create a roof from mass faces open a view that displays the mass.
Roofs created using the roof by face tool do not automatically update if you change the mass face.
You cannot select faces from different masses for the same roof.
There is a generic model with a sat file inside.
In the option bar make sure defines slope is deactivated before drawing the boundary.
To create a roof from mass faces.
Click massing site tabmodel by face panel roof by face.
1 remove slope to create flat roof.
Roofs created using the roof by face tool do not automatically update if you change the mass face.
Create a new family.
Open a view that displays the mass.
After converting mass faces to a roof you can use shape handles to extend the roof boundaries.
There are two instances in the revit file.
The one on the left is just the sat file and the one on the right is the roof by face example done with out of the box revit s tools.
Converting wall based casework to face based in revit recently there was a need for a custom piece of revit family casework which was inadvertently made using a wall based family template.
So in this tutorial we will close it edges using roof fascia.
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We will learn how to create two profile family and use them to define our fascia.
We created a sloped roof and a roof slab below it.
Revit roof by face a how to guide presented by dzan ta repro products inc.
