Eric wing dives into flat roofs first showing how to pitch insulation to roof drains add crickets and warp roofs to fit sloped framing.
Roof cricket revit.
This button doesn t even exist if the roof has any slope.
Select the roof you ll see a button to modify sub elements.
Align one edge of the roof to the reference plane 4 copy the roof paste it in the same place.
Adding a second roof is the easiest for simple conditions typical flat roof at a parapet for example but when you have to add a cricket at the point where a roof with a slight curve to it meets another sloped roof and a vertical face you re gonna have to be pretty good at the maths if you want to try and get a second roof placed correctly.
Summary 1 unjoin the roof 2 create a reference plane 1 away from the edge of the second roof 3 edit the footprint of the unjoined roof.
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It will place in the new construction phase 5 edit the footprint of the new roof.
Draw a top down triangular foorprint of your roof.