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Pitched roof with different eaves heights

Anonymous
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Could someone advise me how to create a roof that has two different eaves heights along the same pitch please (see image). I'm working in Archicad 20

MT_Pitched_roof.png
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David Maudlin
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thompsonmp:

Create either a Single-plane or Multi-plane rectangular Roof, then edit the perimeter as shown in your image. Each slope will be maintained, the eaves along that side will vary in height.

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David
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Anonymous
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Thanks David.

Is there an option for stopping a roof from being hipped automatically?

Appreciate the tip re signature too, very new to archicad, architalk and Mac!
Barry Kelly
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thompsonmp wrote:
Is there an option for stopping a roof from being hipped automatically?
Yes.
For the multiplane roof you can choose the construction method you want (see image).

You can also do the roof you want with the multi-plane roof as well (if you have an eave overhang).
You just need to edit the polygon shape for the roof like you would any other polygon (adding nodes and moving edges or cutting holes).

Be sure to edit the roof edge (eave) and not the pivot line as that will change the geometry of your roof.

If you have no eave overhang it can be hard (impossible) to choose between the two, so set an overhang and edit the eave.
This will set your roof to a 'Manual' eave so you will have to adjust all the other overhang edges manually back to zero if that is what you want.
You can't just set the eave back to zero as that will undo your edit.

Barry.
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Barry Kelly
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To edit a multi-plane roof...

Barry.
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David Maudlin
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thompsonmp wrote:
Appreciate the tip re signature too, very new to archicad, architalk and Mac!
Welcome, thanks for adding the signature.

David
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www.davidmaudlin.com
Digital Architecture
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Anonymous
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Thanks for the advice Barry and the markups, very helpful