Decorate Gable Fascia's

[Anonymous]

I am trying to make a deco fascia and using Profiler it is very easy to do on hip roof where the fascia is flat.

Does anhone know of a way to make decorative fascias for gable roofs. I still haven't found a good way to do this for renderings. Obviously I can draw 2D lines in elevations, but it is really the renderings I am most interested in.

I can't find a way to do this with Profiler so hopefully there is a solution.

Many thanks,

Grant

[Anonymous]

Grant,
Have you tried TrussMaker ?
It can make objects from lines drawn in elevation.
Peter Devlin

[Anonymous]

Thanks, I haven't tried Trussmaker. I will give that a shot and see if I can get it to do what I want.

On another thought, If I create the shape of the gable fascia on a horizontal plane, I can then modify the 3D parameters in GDL to angle the fascia to the roof pitch.

I am not a GDL expert, does anyone have a tutorial or even a description of how I can cut the newly created sloped fascia ends to vertical, and then have them join the horizontal fascia.

Thanks,

Grant

[Anonymous]

Grant,
It occurs to me that you may not have to use GDL.
If you make your gable fascia with a roof with zero pitch
in the floor plan you can then make the mitered ends
by editing the edge angles of the roof.
I am imagining a parallelogram shaped form with one edge
having a chamfer.
View the shape in 3D the way you want the gable fascia object
to look if looking down at it and
"save contents of 3D window as GDL object"
Your gable fascia object will have the mitered corner to join
with the horizontal fascia.
I think this might work.
Peter Devlin

P.S. see this thread about making objects from the 3D window
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=5201&postdays=0&postorder=desc&&start=10&sid=65b...

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply. The method you described sounds like it will work and I will definitely give it a test.

Thanks for your suggestion.

Grant