Revit Roof Slope Insulation

Select your roof edit type and select construction.

Revit roof slope insulation.

Want a sloped structure or a sloped insulation in your flat roof. Find the insulation assembly item. Use pick supports to split the roof element at the supporting beams. Then place the minimum untapered layer of rigid insulation and metal deck on the joists.

This also adjusts the position of the roof if the support and the roof are not aligned. The second attachment shows how it s actually constructed with 1 2 tapered boards. By default the whole roof will be sloped. Rigid board insulation is the most common type of insulation used in low slope commercial roofing.

Here is how to assign a variable material in revit. Use shape editing to add internal drains to the roof built using sloped insulation. First select the roof. It is made from cellular plastic or fibrous materials and pressed into boards.

The first attachment shows how i normally do it with slope defining lines near the roof drain with the tapered insulation roof element either extended to the main roof or just sketched out that way. The shape editing tools display on the contextual tab. Check variable material in the roof structure to create sloped insulation. How to slope roof insulation only in revit.

I used 1 8 and 1 4 sloped pieces on a 1 4 sloped roof. The best way to model a slope in your roof insulation layer only is to assign the insulation materials as variable in the construction assembly.