From the course: Building Roofs with Revit
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Adding custom eyebrow dormers - Revit Tutorial
From the course: Building Roofs with Revit
Adding custom eyebrow dormers
Not all dormers can be integrated into the main roof itself. Some dormers are an entirely different shape, and even material than the main roof. By being able to add a dormer free from the confines and constraints of the main roof, we're actually freed up to do quite a bit. This video has us creating a rounded roof dormer. By adding a roof by extrusion, we can create an actual free-form sketch of anything we want, then physically join it to the main roof once complete. To get started, let's jump into our Revit Roofs file. Or of course you can use any file that you've been working on. What I want to do now, is I want to go to the actual roof level. So let's go to the Project Browser. Let's go to our roof level. I want to specify a plane, that we're going to actually put the front of our dormer on. So under Work Plane on the Architecture tab, let's go ahead and click on the Reference Plane button. On the Draw panel, let's click the Pick Lines button. Let's give it an offset of 30 feet…
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