Revit Sloped Roof Framing

[sponcyv]

I am new to Revit as our company is trying to get up to speed with the BIM movement. I am learning on the job and am finding it difficult and time consuming to sift through the web support on the Autodesk Revit site.

I am trying to lay out my roof framing on a slope. This is a constant sloped roof. I have created a reference plane to associate with the roof framing, but when I place my support beams at the front of the building, the beams are rotated about their longitudinal axis and they should be upright.

What is the easiest method to lay out the roof framing on a sloped roof?

 

[YOO1]

There are many ways of doing that. I do not have that much experiance but this is what I suggest.

Put one beam horizontaly and adjust the elevation at end points as required. Then copy that beam as much as you want.
Or use the align command if the arch already have a sloped materia.

 

[baw1]

You probably should join AUGI and search for answers and post most of your questiosn there. You will find more people use use revit.
You adjust the longitudinal rotation of an element through its properites, though I have found it to be somewhat finiky in RS2009. Sometimes it works and sometime it does not, with no logical variation, that I can find, as to why it sometimes does not work.

 

[jdiggs]

There are several ways of doing this. I do not like setting the reference plane, i've run across problems doing it this way. As you mentioned, the members come in on an angle.

I'm new to revit as well, but you can try this:

Create a roof (use either roof command or structural floor command) You'll want this level to be the bottom of deck el

Modify sub elements to set the elevations

Attach columns to the roof (this will set your columns at the right elevations)

Draw your beam framing (when you attach to a column, snap to a point (using SX or under snap settings))

Frame your joists, etc.

That should work (I think)