Roof Crickets Revit

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 crickets revit.

How do you construct a roof cricket. It will place in the new construction phase 5 edit the footprint of the new roof. My two favorite approaches to creating a flat roof cricket in revit are either creating an adaptive component or modifying the sub elements of the roof. 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.

This course covers the topic of adding roofs roof framing and detailing with revit. For example on the back side of a chimney as the roof slopes down on it. This thread is archived. Align one edge of the roof to the reference plane 4 copy the roof paste it in the same place.

How can i create this type of roof cricket. Roof surface roof surface slope cricket width cricket length cricket panel slope cricket valley slope cricket angle distance between points 3 and 4 cricket angle 2 the manufactured slope of the cricket panel. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Any ideas on how this can be achieved.

I know some of you may be thinking that the modify sub elements tool is like voodoo black magic. I m trying to create the roof cricket shown in this image in revit. Thanks edit for broken link. Many thanks kind regards ian.

I e if the roof surface. The industry rule of thumb is that the cricket panel slope should be twice that of the roof surface slope. The cricket would direct the rain to pass the chimney on either side.