Hip roof

[Dontknow]

Trying to create a hip roof with different gutter heights.
Any suggestions on how to construct this?

[Gerald Hoffman]

You just need to add a node on the bottom edge of the roof plane you want to extend down, drag each of them perpendicular to the corners and then extend the edge to the desired overhang.

Cheers,

[Barry Kelly]

No need to add nodes manually (unless they are single roof planes rather than the multi-plane roof).
You should be able to drag the edge with the pet palette option straight away.
The only problem you may have with this is if your roof edge and pivot line are on top of each other (I.e. zero length eave overhang).
In this case type in a temporary distance for the overhang, stretch the edge you want, and then set the overhang back to zero but tell it not to reset the custom overhangs.

Barry.

[Gerald Hoffman]

Barry I always use single roof planes I guess which is why I answered that way. I often end up with some complicated roofs and I find that I have a lot more control with single roof planes.

Cheers,

[Dontknow]

Gerald wrote:
Barry I always use single roof planes I guess which is why I answered that way. I often end up with some complicated roofs and I find that I have a lot more control with single roof planes.

I agree.
I can't get it to work without single roof planes. Can't set a different roof angle.
But when I do a SEO with single roof planes I get this gap between the roofs.

[Aaron Bourgoin]

be sure to set all the edges of your roof planes to a vertical cut. Avoid the use of SEOs - cancel them in fact, and use ArchiCAD's intersect roof plane functionality. when you have it the way you want, go back and make sure that all the ore edges are set to vertical. They will likely mitre in the intersection process.

[Barry Kelly]

You can do quite a bit with a multi-plane roof but I agree it is often easier to convert to single roof planes when things get a bit complicated.
Attached image is 2 connected multi-plane roofs.

Barry.

[Dontknow]

I fixed it by drawing in the roofs as single planes complex roofs and using the intersect roof plane functionality.