Roof edge question

[Tom Krowka]

I have a roof that is 9" thick. When I select the edge of the roof, I can go to the roof edge command that allows me to change the shape of the roof edge. However, HORIZONTAL is greyed out. That's the one I need.

How can I activate that selection?

[Erika Epstein]

tom,
I am guessing that you are trying to do this on the rake edge. In this case it is greyed out as a precaution because making this edge horizontal might cause an invalid polygon.
I am not sure what you are trying to accomplish. You could type in a custom angle of 0º; the result would give you a roof plane of no thickness.

so.. what are you trying to do?

[Ben Odonnell]

Tom,
It depends on what roof edge you are trying to apply the command on, please see attached image.

HTH.
Cheers.
Ben

[Link]

Only the edges that are parallel to the pivot line have this option.

Cheers,
Link.

[Ben Odonnell]

Thanks Link,
I forgot to mention that

[Anonymous]

Newbie... believe I have the same problem (see image). Even if it's not the same problem, a problem nevertheless

[Erika Epstein]

Looks like you have a composite selected for your roof. This pre-determines the roof thickness.

If you want a different thickness for your roof pick
-a composite that is the correct thickness or
-modify your chosen composite or
-choose a non-composite which will allow you to set the thickness where you indicate in your jpg

[Karl Ottenstein]

Erika wrote:
Looks like you have a composite selected for your roof. This pre-determines the roof thickness.

Looks like that to me, too, Erika.

This is a good usability one for the wish list. Most of us old-timers don't think about the fact that composites affect roof, wall or slab thickness, for example. (In fact, we count on it.) But, I wonder if it wouldn't help newbies if a little bit of text (or something) showed up next to the entry fields when a composite is selected that says something like "Depth defined by composite".

Well, that wasn't exactly user friendly ... anybody have a better proposal and think it is a useful wish for making AC easier to learn?

(I suppose the next step would be a button that let you jump right to the composite definition if you wanted to change it...)

Karl

[Erika Epstein]

Spoiling the Newbies again Karl?

[Anonymous]

I'm all for being spoiled

PS: Thanks!