Floors, Roofs, and Ceilings - Autodesk Revit Architecture 2015 Essentials - page 57

Chapter 3

Floors, roofs, and
Ceilings

This chapter will walk you through the most common horizontal host
objects that make up your building. Although the process of creating a floor,
roof, or ceiling is somewhat different for each, the tools used to edit each ini-
tial design element are similar and have overlapping methodology.
In this chapter, you'll learn to:

▶ Create floors by sketching, editing, and picking

▶ Create sloped floors

▶ Create and modify a roof by footprint

▶ Create and modify a roof by extrusion

▶ Adjust the slope of a roof

▶ Create ceilings

▶ Create custom ceilings by sketching

▶ Add lights to a ceiling

▶ Slope and modify the ceiling type

Creating Floors

There are quite a few ways to create floors in the Autodesk ® Revit ®
Architecture software. The main objective for this chapter is to understand
what the various approaches to a single floor type will do and what kind of
relationships they'll make.