topic Re: Roof with angles on differen axes in Modeling

Roof with angles on differen axes

Anonymous — Tue, 23 May 2023 12:29:45 GMT

Hey forum,
I want to create a roof following the angles showing in the attached imaged.
I would like to use only the roof tool so I can later add skylights to be used for energy calculations.
Any ideas/tips?
Cheers

Re: Roof with angles on differen axes

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 08:35:08 GMT

Hello Anestis,
roof tool can get it. Put your attention in building your reference lines (none of your edges seems to be parallel or perpendicular to it) for the two planes and edit the contour adding points.
Let's do it.

Re: Roof with angles on differen axes

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 09:51:59 GMT

Hey Ilder,
thank you for the reply,
I don't really understood the contour part,
I am trying to achieve the desired result by using single plane roofs but this way I cannot add the second angle axis.
Could you explain a bit more your way?
Thanks again m8

Re: Roof with angles on differen axes

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 10:11:19 GMT

I did a more thorough search on the topic and used different search terms and it came out with a similar solved problem
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=22847&postdays=0&postorder=desc&&start=0
So I'll give this a shot

Re: Roof with angles on differen axes

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 20:34:52 GMT

Quite easy. Just remember that your pivot line will always be perpendicular to the slope. Set out your roof pivot line, draw the shape of your roof (or just start with a basic rectangle and adjust later). Repeat for other side. Select first roof, CMD-Click (CTRL-Click in windows) second roof edge to make it intersect with selected roof. Select second roof, CMD-Click edge of first to make it intersect with selected. Adjust edges / vertices as necessary using pet palette.

Re: Roof with angles on differen axes

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 06:39:25 GMT

Goodmorning and thanks for the reply, Steward (?)
My problem was that I couldn't define the plane of the slope, I found the solution by using a 3point mesh to define the plane and then drawing out the roof in 3d view,which lets you define a plane rather slope direction, once I figured it out it was a 5 minute job.
Other solutions proposed were
a) create two roofs as helper nodes and then draw the actual roof in 3d view,using them as reference
b)create a mesh and then use "create roof from mesh"

I am going to give your method a try,just for learning's sake!
Did not know that you could extend/trim roofs to intersect.Nice trick!
Again,thank you for the reply