CHAPTER 4

Floors, Roofs, and Ceilings

We've approached this chapter by grouping together horizontal host elements that make up your building. Although the initial creation of a floor, roof, or ceiling is somewhat different, the tools used to edit the initial design element have a lot of overlap and similarity.

In this chapter, you learn the following skills:

  • Creating floors
  • Laying out roofs
  • Adding ceilings

Creating Floors

image There are quite a few ways to create floors in Revit. But we honestly don't have the space to dig deep into all these variations! Quite frankly they're not important for early design iteration.

What's important is that you ...

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