How To Turn On Overhaed Line Of Roof In Revit

You can even underlay the same level as the view to select a ceiling or beams or other elements that are not shown in the view.

How to turn on overhaed line of roof in revit. Once you select this tool you get a choice of line styles from a drop down menu. Then select the line style you want to represent the roof overhang in the view. In the properties dialog box for the view you want to see the overhang lines in set the underlay drop down to be the level on which the roof was created. With this line style selected all i need to do is click on each line that i want to apply this style to which is all the lines that make up the perimeter of the roof boundary.

For more tips tricks and tutorials on all things revit and bim. You can use the overhead line style for tracing underlays or define your own line style. Let s go ahead and select the overhead line style. You can set an overhang on roofs created with pick walls.

Revit plan views show overhead eg stair parts walkways in floor plan view view properties turn on underlayfor the level where the feature is set say an intermediate landing or gantry in view props set underlay orientation to rcp. If level 2 has a roof you can select the roof in the plan view and then modify it. 5 activate overhang on picked walls roofs. Now the next step is to select the linework tool from the modify tab view panel.