Show Floor Plan Underneath The Roof Plan On Revit

Begin by opening the plan view in which you want to see the roof line overhang as a hidden line.

Show floor plan underneath the roof plan on revit. Autoplay when autoplay is enabled a suggested video will automatically play next. Open the plan view of the level in which you want to see the roof line. So i change the underlay parameter you find this is the properties palette to the level where your roof or roof light canopy etc resides. Perspective floor plan in revit tutorial duration.

This makes the roof line visible in the plan view but the lines appear as solid lines. Click architecture tabbuild panelroof drop down roof by footprint. If you try to add a roof on the lowest level a dialog prompts you to move it to a higher level. Revit has worked out that i may not want to create a roof down at the ground floor.

First of all i need to open the ground floor plan. If you choose not to move the roof to a different level revit notifies you. And now i need to set it s underlay to show the roof element. To prevent the floor or slab from being visible in plan view you need to adjust the bottom clip so that it is more than 4 feet above the floor or slab and set the view depth so that it does not include any part of the floor or slab.

In this example my roof element is at level 1. How do you make roof lines visible in floor plans. 1 st floor no overhang in the properties dialog box for the view you want to see the overhang lines in set the underlay drop down to be the level on which the roof was created. For demonstration purposes i have purposefully open the ground floor plan view and then activated the roof tool.

Display a floor plan view or a reflected ceiling plan view. In plan view click view menu view properties. Click the edit button for the view range parameter. Go ahead and change the drop down level selector to reflect the level you want the roof to be set at you can always change this later so don.

In the view properties expand the underlay drop down and select the level on which the roof was created to display as an underlay.