You should be able to do that in plan or 3D. Just select the roof, an whilst in the roof tool, click on an edge. On the appearing pet palette, select the one with the minus sign and space bar click on the part you want to get rid of. It may take further polygon edits.
No offence mate, but some of these questions are quite fundamental. Did you take any training? Are you self taught/teaching? Is there good training available down there?
Being a trainer and an Aussie myself, I'd be interested to hear about it.
Cheers,
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