Metric Tutorials - Autodesk

Creating a Mansard Roof
In this exercise, you create a mansard roof by cutting off a hip roof at a specific level and adding another
roof on top of it.
Training File
718 | Chapter 23 Roofs
■ Click File menu ➤ Open.
■ In the left pane of the Open dialog, click Training Files, and open Metric\m_Mansard_Roof.rvt.
1 In the Project Browser, expand Views (all), expand Elevations, and double-click North.
Notice the model has four defined levels:
In the next steps, you constrain the current roof so it does not rise above Level 3.
2 On the Basics tab of the Design Bar, click Modify.
3 Select the roof and, on the Options Bar, click (Properties).
4 In the Element Properties dialog, under Constraints, select Level 3 for Cutoff Level.
5 Click OK to cut the top of the roof off at level 3.