In the edit assembly dialog specify the material for layers and the thickness of those layers.
Revit roof variable thickness not workign.
Hi i am trying to model a non rectangular single slope roof with a variable thickness.
When the value is writable it can be used to set a uniform thickness of the roof.
The variable layer thickness parameter of roofs and floors affects the shape editing tools in the following ways.
When there is a variable thickness layer the top face of the roof or floor slopes and the bottom stays in a horizontal plane creating.
Check variable material in the roof structure to create sloped insulation.
I appears that the variable thickness in floors and roofs only works with modifying sub elements in the floor.
On the properties palette click edit type.
The next step i tried was making a plan roof and modifying the sub elements but since my roof is not rectangular there a lot of points in the middle that i have to manually adjust the height.
This is typically a read only value unless a shape edit has been applied and its type contains a variable layer.
By default the whole roof will be sloped.
Click ok until all of the dialogs are closed.
The entry can be blank if the thickness varies.
Revit variable layers for roofs and floors.
Want a sloped structure or a sloped insulation in your flat roof.
Select the floor or roof.
Check out the full thing.
Set variable material for sloped insulation this is part of the revit pure basics package.
When there is no variable thickness layer the whole roof or floor slopes and maintains constant thickness between parallel top and bottom faces.
For more information about the edit assembly dialog see compound structure.
The variable thickness parameter column will contain empty check boxes next to layers where variable thickness can be enabled.
The insulation thickness must be at least as thick as the vertical slope else you will receive a warning.
It seems like it would be really easy for this to work with a slope arrow within the floor but that doesn t.
See variable layer thickness for roofs and.
8 set variable material for sloped insulation.
The problem is that whenever i use a slope arrow revit doesn t vary the thickness.
I have a balcony floor with multiple jogs and i d like for heights of all those jogs to fall along the slope and not have to independently calculate the height of each jog.
Next to the desired layer of the roof or floor in the assembly select the variable check box.
In the value box of the structure property click edit.