How To Make A One Plane Roof

Creating a bullnose verandah.

How to make a one plane roof.

This dialog also serves as the default dialog for roofs settings here apply to manually drawn roof planes as well as automatic roofs. Using the extend slope downward option. However since facades only impact memory use in x plane it would make much more sense to simplify one facade image and use it for all levels of detail this is much more likely to save ram than using two levels of detail. Cover your rafter trusses with plywood sheathing.

Drive a nail into each corner of the plywood to hold it in place temporarily. Specify the pitch for a roof plane building over a particular wall or railing on the roof panel of the specification dialog. Put down your first sheet of plywood at the corner of one end of the roof. Make sure it s lying horizontally across the exposed rafters and that the edges are flush with the edges of the end rafters.

Select build roof build roof from the menu to open the build roof dialog. Set the pitch in 12 to the value you desire. Edit roof levels edit eaves or gable overhang edit roof contour edit roof ridge customize roof plane customize edge of roof or roof hole create a hole in a roof create an atrium add a tower to the roof create roof level lines intersect single plane roofs. Will go with it.

In this example a pitch of 6 in 12 is used. First of all create a reference plane in desired position and if you like lock it to the roof plane this way if you raise the roof the purlins etc. Manually draw in custom roof planes and join them together allowing the program to do the math for you. Manually roofing an l shaped house with gable ends.

On the roof panel of the build roof dialog. Setting the minimum alcove. Use the roof directives to automatically generate hip gable shed gambrel gull wing half hip or dutch gable conditions. Generating a roof over an l shaped house with gable ends.

Your chief architect home design software is able to create curved roofs such as a bullnose easily. Now the trick is select and name the ref. Create a story and a half structure and place automatic dormers. Setting the roof texture.

Plane if you don t none of this works.