How do you model a Broken Gable Roof?

[Anonymous]

Any suggestions on how to model a broken gable roof? Struggling to get the roof tool to keep valleys and ridges at 45 degree angle as well.

I attached a screen shot of what I have and the red lines of where I need to be.

[Barry Kelly]

The easiest way I think is to convert the multiplane roof to single roof planes and add in a new lower pitched roof where you need it.
Then trim all the edges together to form the hips, valleys and joins.

You could leave the main roof as a multi-plane roof and add in a separate single plane and try to connect it but you may find it doesn't join up successfully.

You can also leave it as a multi-plane roof and in the multi-plane geometry settings you can add another level.
But I always find this very hard to work out the positions for the pitching point and I am never happy with the way it automatically trims.
So I convert the roof to single roof planes and adjust the low pitch roof and re-trim it.

Barry.

[Anonymous]

Barry wrote:
The easiest way I think is to convert the multiplane roof to single roof planes and add in a new lower pitched roof where you need it.
Then trim all the edges together to form the hips, valleys and joins.

You could leave the main roof as a multi-plane roof and add in a separate single plane and try to connect it but you may find it doesn't join up successfully.

You can also leave it as a multi-plane roof and in the multi-plane geometry settings you can add another level.
But I always find this very hard to work out the positions for the pitching point and I am never happy with the way it automatically trims.
So I convert the roof to single roof planes and adjust the low pitch roof and re-trim it.

Using single plane roofs worked out much better. Thanks so much for the help!