A blue chalk line snapped across an uneven timber purlin will humble anyone who spends too much time in Revit. The client wanted perfectly planar ceilings throughout the barn conversion, but that five-centimeter dip had been holding up half the roof since 1890 without flinching. We boxed out around the deflection instead of forcing it straight, and it’s easily the quietest, best room in the house.
Point clouds of century-old timber frames taught me to stop fighting that sag early on; the moment you relax the mesh solver to follow the actual dip instead of forcing nominal geometry, everything settles right into place.
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