topic Re: Trim a Roof to a Roof.... in Modeling

Trim a Roof to a Roof....

Anonymous — Tue, 23 May 2023 13:32:35 GMT

SO, I am wokring on a building and on the same story I have about 7 different roof heights/Pitches etc... I am wondering if can trim a roof to a roof. I think this question makes sense to me, I hope it does to someone out there with an answer too.
Thank You.

Re: Trim a Roof to a Roof....

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 21:56:33 GMT

You should be able to do it the same way you find ridges, valleys etc.

Select the roof you want to match to, then ctrl-click the edge of a roof you want to trim/extend to the first roof, and it will find the position where the two roof planes meet. Reverse the selection and ctrl-click process for the other roof.

HTH

Re: Trim a Roof to a Roof....

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:03:28 GMT

That's awesome, thank you. I see that that finds where the roof meet for me, which is great, but it doesnt trim the roff underneith, so to do that I just use the "subtract from polygon" tool?

Re: Trim a Roof to a Roof....

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:13:51 GMT

Not quite sure what you mean. Can you post a screen shot?

Re: Trim a Roof to a Roof....

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:26:53 GMT

Well, I am not so sure that I know exactly what I mean either, But what ever I did, it is working out. So i am going to go with it for now.
As for a screen shot, I am new to this, could you explain how I do that, cause that will probably be helpful to me when I have more questions.
Thank You!

Re: Trim a Roof to a Roof....

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:03:43 GMT

Various options for screen shots discussed elsewhere in this forum. Try a search (near top of screen). I just hit the Print Screen button then paste as new image in photoshop, crop, saveas... Mac is different I believe.

As advised by others too, it is handy to add your system info to your signature in your profile so people know what you're using, helps with answering questions.

Cheers

Re: Trim a Roof to a Roof....

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:40:41 GMT

On the Mac, you hit command + shift + 4. this presents you
with a cursor in the form of a circle and cross hairs which
you drag across that portion of the screen that you want
a picture of. In OS X, a .PDF with the title "Picture One" will appear
on the desktop. In OS previous to OS X a Pict file of the same
name is placed in the hard drive directory at the top level.
Peter Devlin

Re: Trim a Roof to a Roof....

Barry Kelly — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 03:22:03 GMT

Jesikuh123 wrote:
That's awesome, thank you. I see that that finds where the roof meet for me, which is great, but it doesnt trim the roff underneith, so to do that I just use the "subtract from polygon" tool?

Just repeat the same thing but in reverse.

Select first roof and CTRL-click second roo edge.
Now select second roof and CTRL-click first roof edge.

Barry.