Revit Cut Roof With Void

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Revit cut roof with void.

Subscribe to the repro products channel. Place the void family and cut it with your framing family. But you can use cut tool and select host element then void and then you will have a cut there. Model in place won t work.

That s more like it. Create an in place family roof at choosing void extrusion. I m trying to make this roof window as attached. Cutting with voids in families when loaded open the revit family with unattached voids and click create tab properties panel family category and parameters.

You can use model in place when you want to cut system families like roofs or walls. Revit will think that the structural framing is cut forever. If you want to cut host element automatically at the moment of face based void placement you have to cut host element first. Simply select the cut geometry tool then select the floor element first and then select the family second.

Workaround copy the original structural framing element. Load the family into the project and place it. My other problem is that even if i accept that i have to put it on the roof it always follows the. When you load it to the revit project and place on any surface it cuts host element automatically.

I ve got the window in a face based family and will cut either the roof if that s the face i put it on or the floor if i put it on that face but not both. Ideally in a section view draw the contourline of the void using the pick line option on the base of the inside edge. My problem is that i simply can t get a void to cut the roof and the floor underneath. Please note that this cutting of the geometry was only possible because we checked the parameter cut with void when loaded.

In the family category and parameters dialog select cut with voids when loaded and click ok.