topic Re: Set roof pitch to 1% or less, different sides in Modeling

Set roof pitch to 1% or less, different sides

canvea — Tue, 23 May 2023 12:06:25 GMT

Hi everyone! I am trying to use the roof tool to model a football field with a 1% pitch (or less) on four sides, however Archicad 23 only allows me to pick a 1,746% pitch, which makes the tool useless.. I assume the reason is that this number is hard to consolidate with all meeting points in the roof surface, but I would at least prefer that Archicad told me this, in stead of just reverting back to this annoying number 1,746 when I try to change it.

Is there a way to get the pitch to be 1% or less, and the four sides just adjusting to each other? If that makes sense. The sides don't all need to be the same pitch, just less than 1%. See attached photo for an illustration of my problem.

Re: Set roof pitch to 1% or less, different sides

David Maudlin — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 13:05:00 GMT

canvea:

Rather than the Multi-Plane Roof you could use four Single-Plane Roofs, which allow 0˚ angles. For a large terrain like this I would use the Mesh Tool.

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David

Re: Set roof pitch to 1% or less, different sides

canvea — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 13:18:48 GMT

Thanks, I thought that's what I'd have to do.. Would be nice to have it as one single element though. And I'll add a signature!