Composite Fill Direction

[Anonymous]

I have made a roof composite using the plywood fill for the top skin. When I cut a section however, the plywood fill does not remain parallel to the slope of the roof. This creates a problem when trying to detail. The orientation radio buttons have no affect either.

We are trying to use live sections for detailing our wall sections and would key those for further detailing. At this point, I am not sure how to resolve the fill direction without exploding the section and doing it manually.

Any tips on how to make it work?

[Anonymous]

Yes, I was not very clear that i was referring to a section cut of the composite. This missing feature costs a lot of time manually fixing the roof. Although I think as a work around, I might just make a custom plywood fill with a rotation that matches my roof pitch. I guess I might need at least two angles. Maybe more depending on how the section is cut.


Merry Christmas everyone.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Yes, it is frustrating that the section cut fills have no alignment option to keep them rotated with the roof plane. Especially since materials applied to the roof edge do the right thing. For example, I have some parallel lines for the fill associated with my roof fascia material. In elevation, these lines follow the roof slope as desired, giving me a fake (very fake) reminder of 'stacked' fascia in elevation at early stages of design.

Cheers,
Karl