Revit Floor Slope

You can create sloped floors in the building model.

Revit floor slope.

To calculate this multiply the length in feet of the farthest wall from the drain and multiply that result by 0 125. Welcome to my channel. Draw a slope arrow while sketching or editing the floor boundary. Specify a value for the defines slope and slope properties for a single floor sketch line.

The preferred slope is between one quarter and one eighth inch per running foot of floor length. As a rule of thumb all areas around the drain should have a similar slope. For more examples and tips see about slope arrows. Quite often you do not want to slope the whole of the floor element but just a small part of it.

Today let s look at an interesting and overdue topic raised by the query on creating a sloped floor in the revit api discussion forum addressed with help from jaap van der weide and joe ye before getting to that let me quickly mention some other happy and important news. You do this by cordoning off the area you wish to triangulate using split lines. Click modify create edit boundary draw tab slope arrow. Click once to specify its start point tail.

Revit 2015 is coming soon the autodesk 2015 software portfolio for the building and civil infrastructure industries has now been officially announced. Click again to specify its endpoint head. Normal manipulation of model patterns move align and rotatable will only apply for straight planes so to fix this unwanted deformation we need to manipulate surface by height points or sketch of the floor. Specify a value for the offset from base property for parallel floor sketch lines.

I create videos and tutorials for architects. Select your floor element and then select split line from the ribbon menu. Working with hardscapes or sloped floors it sometimes happens that a model pattern will deform or behave strange in revit. This is often the result of a curved face.

Draw the slope arrow in the drawing area. How to create a sloped floor hi.