Revit Roof Plan: Adding Dimensions, Slope Arrows, and Adjusting Cut Plane

Now that we look at our roof plan, we can see there are a few notes. We've got to dimension the extents of our roof screen, which is important. And then we also want to make sure that we get all of our slope arrows shown in here.

And then some dimensions on the skylight. And also, it's hard to tell, but the cut plane for this plan is actually slicing through the skylight a little bit. We're going to want to go in and adjust that so that it shows correctly.

And then we should be good to go. So I'm going to jump back into Revit here and let's go to our roof plan sheet. Looks pretty good.

There are just a few things that we need to update. So first off, let's tackle this cut region or cut plane issue. And so if we go to our view range, we can just increase our cut plane.

Instead of six feet, we'll go ahead and make it seven feet and hit Apply. And you can see it changed the way that looked. So I'll just pop back to four feet and hit Apply so you can kind of see the difference.

And then five feet—you know, it's kind of marching up. Six feet, almost there, right? But not quite. And then seven feet gets us there so that it is actually showing the entire skylight.

So first things first, let's go ahead and dimension because that's the easiest thing to do, right? We can just add these dimensions at the corners so that we know that these things are located. And then we can dimension the overall roof screen. And it's really the same methods and processes that we used previously.

Keeping in mind, you know, making sure we're not overlapping dimensions and having a dimension sitting on top of a roof drain like I almost did there. And noticing that I moved it closer, so now I'm going in and making that adjustment. And so I'll just get the rest of these corners here.

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You will grow to love the TAB key as you do more of this dimensioning. Okay, it looks like we've got that pretty well covered here.

And now we can go in and just using our Create Similar tool, we can add the rest of the slope designations for our roof toward our drain. And this is just a matter of making sure you get them all, kind of like what we're doing here.

Could be a little tedious sometimes, but it's not too bad—especially this roof, since it's pretty straightforward. Okay.

And then this one. Okay, so this is a Keynote for our roof drain and that should be typical. So I'll add the typical text note to that one.

And this is our skylight here that we need to dimension because that was noted in our notes. So what I'll do is dimension this from the outside edge to the grid lines and just kind of bring this down—let’s bring it down to here. And there's one more.

We should probably dimension the halfway point on this. And now we've got all the notes that we had on the markup. And there may be a couple more that we could add if we really wanted to take this thing to the next level.

Kind of like what we did in BIM 101. We can start adding spot elevations to these. And it's always important to note where they're coming from.

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And this is from our actual elevation, which means it's going to list the elevation. So this would be like our parapet height. And we also have that ability from an instance standpoint to add a prefix or a suffix value.

And you can type that in. So I could say like T-O-P for top of parapet and it adds the value before or after. Again, that's a personal preference thing.

You could do it either way. And then I can do the same thing where I pick a spot elevation at this point, which would be our low point where our drain is going to be. And I could do the same thing—like we did here—adding that value either before or after the tag.

So in this case, we could do it after and we can say “drain, ” and it shows the value at the drain. It's just a matter of adjusting the tag slightly to show that value there. Same thing for our roof screen, right? Because that's going to have its own elevation as well.

And now we've got a little bit more of an established roof plan. We've got our Keynotes, got our roofing shown, elevations and slopes are a little bit more clear now. And we've got more dimensions to clearly describe what's going on with this skylight.

And so as far as our plans are concerned, you can see we've got all of the notes that we've been asked to incorporate—as well as some other ones—because we know that's just where the direction of the project is going. And we're ready to dive into our next lesson, which is going to be dealing with our Elevations and Sections.