Sloping Floor Slab Revit

The floor may change in the near future.

Sloping floor slab revit. You ll find that is more flexible. Welcome to my channel. I don t know if revit mep has this tool but when you create a slab with the floor tool of the architecture tab and you click on the floor do you see some tools on the ribbon like modify sub elements. Specify a value for the offset from base property for parallel floor sketch lines.

Revit will slope the entire floor according to the offset slope parameter values you provide between those points. If you are using the slope arrow to slope your slab you can flatten the slab add the edges and then re slope it. Look into the shape editing features for floors instead. Draw a slope arrow while sketching or editing the floor boundary.

Before getting to that let me quickly mention some other happy and important news. I create videos and tutorials for architects. I have a floor that has a slope of 1 60 on it. At any point in time you can remove all shape edits to your floor by use of the reset shape function.

Quite often you do not want to slope the whole of the floor element but just a small part of it. Floors though i cant put onto a named plane. You can create sloped floors in the building model. Check out the help documentation for basic information.

Just select the floor and choose reset shape from the end of the ribbon. 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. The edges will follow the slope. Check the help documents about modify sub elements.

With that all the steelwork will change and i dont fancy modelling stuff twice. To start with just create the floor flat. Method 2 if you are using the slab shape editing tools or you do not want to flatten the slab you can draw a model line along the sloped slab edge. It is perhaps the most versatile method other than shape editing but it is also a bit harder to become comfortable with.

Steelwork is straight forward i e i shall place it on a named ref plane. Select the finished floor and then check out the shape editing tools that appear on the ribbon. How to create a sloped floor hi. Sloping via the sketch of the slab is limited to one direction one slope applied to the entire surface.

Use one of the following methods. Revit and sketchup and 3d max and autocad tutorials. Revit 2015 is coming soon.