With the cut geometry tool you can pick and choose which geometry gets cut and which does not regardless of when you created the geometry.
Revit cut roof geometry.
Cutting with voids in families when loaded.
You can cut objects in a project when a family with unattached voids is loaded.
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To enable this open the revit family with.
You can cut objects in a project when a family with unattached voids is loaded.
The default is plumb cut as we have seen in the previous images.
Load the family into the project and place it.
Revit lt cuts the selected geometry.
In the family category and parameters dialog select cut with voids when loaded and click ok.
Cutting with voids in families when loaded.
Cut with voids when loaded.
Click modify tab geometry panel cut drop down cut geometry.
It turns out the easiest way to accomplish this is to use a curtain wall by face and remember to use the bottom face of a mass instead of the top to draw an upside down roof because roofs in revit think above is interior and then use more invisible cutting objects to get the right shape of your roof since you can t just cut through.
Objects that can be cut include.
With the cut geometry tool.
Walls floors roofs ceilings and structural framing structural columns structural foundations casework furniture.
With the cut geometry tool.
Select the object to be cut.
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Rafter cut additional options in revit have to do with the termination of the rafters at the eaves.
Revit gives us three options.
Walls floors roofs ceilings and structural framing structural columns structural foundations casework furniture.
Revit best class click modify tabgeometry panelcut drop down cut geometry and select the void you created cutouts maps make the material partially transpar.
Open the revit family with unattached voids and click create tab properties panel family category and parameters.
Walls floors roofs ceilings and structural framing structural columns structural foundations and generic models.