Revit Dormer Roof

In the 3d view select one of the back edges of the dormer roof and then select the plane of the main roof.

Revit dormer roof.

First a work plane needs to be decided upon. The dormer roof is extended to meet the main roof. Dormers are creative features in houses that are tricky to create in revit. In the dialog click yes to attach the dormer walls to the roof.

Architecture tab opening panel dormer opening highlight the main roof on the building model and click to select it. The pick roof wall edges tool is active so that you can pick the boundaries that compose the dormer opening. Get these project files and all advanced 1h courses. This tutorial will show you how to create a dormer on your roof in the revit prog.

Now use the roof join tool to join the dormer roof to the main roof. Watch the status bar to be sure that you are highlighting the main roof. Watch the status bar to be sure that you are highlighting the main roof. You can model this in any of the 3 primary roof modelling methods but in the example i have opted to use the roof by extrusion tool.

To create a dormer roof we first need to start with the smaller roof portion of the dormer. On the modify tab click join unjoin roof.