Roof Crickets Revit

This course covers the topic of adding roofs roof framing and detailing with revit.

Roof crickets revit.

Many thanks kind regards ian. The industry rule of thumb is that the cricket panel slope should be twice that of the roof surface slope. From flat roofs to fun free form roofs and everything in between hip gable mansard dutch hip combination and gambrel. I m trying to create the roof cricket shown in this image in 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. Thanks edit for broken link. 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. I e if the roof surface.

This would be done simply as a small dormer roof joined to the main roof. For example on the back side of a chimney as the roof slopes down on it. The cricket would direct the rain to pass the chimney on either side. This thread is archived.

Additionally people get extremely creative when it comes to the crickets on flat roofs. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. I know some of you may be thinking that the modify sub elements tool is like voodoo black magic. 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.

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. It will place in the new construction phase 5 edit the footprint of the new roof. How can i create this type of roof cricket.