2012
Revit Structure
Roof Design Simplified with BuildEdge
product focus
by: Aaron Dietzen
Designing roofs can be a complicated process. A new product from BuildEdge allows you to create difficult roofs with a single mouse click.
Figure 1: Multiple plate height roof in a single mouse click.
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esigning a roof in Autodesk® Revit® Structure can feel like a necessary evil. It is one of those things that you often have to do, but do not enjoy doing. Roofs need to be modeled correctly to assure correct load generation and transfer through a structure. A new add-in for Revit seeks to simplify this process.
BuildEdge Roof for Revit BuildEdge Roof makes designing complex roofs easier by reducing the number of steps involved in designing a roof, providing a
October 2011
preview of the roof before it is complete, and providing additional parameters and information. These improvements can dramatically increase productivity. For example, it can take fewer than 10 seconds to design a roof with multiple steps in plate height in BuildEdge Roof.
Single-click Roof BuildEdge Roof allows you to define the boundary of a roof. Then the add-in calculates where the changes in elevation are, based on
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