changing edge treatment on the fly for roofs.

[Anonymous]

I have been working in ArchiCad and a major wish of mine is to be able to change the treatment of the edge of a roof on the fly after it has been created. When you use the roof tool you have the choice of plumb, soffit, or perpendicular. The only way to get a roof that has combination of different types on different sides is to use the geometry methods to create it. My wish is to be able to select the roof and change the treatment of the edges after it has been created. This would solve several of the questions I have been reading in this forum. It would also make the model much cleaner and allow easier transition from design to documentation without the need for patches or fills.

[Barry Kelly]

chriszolezzi wrote:
I have been working in ArchiCad and a major wish of mine is to be able to change the treatment of the edge of a roof on the fly after it has been created.

Is the "Set roof edge angle" tool in the pet palette not what you are after?
You can alter the angle of each edge separately or make all the same with this tool.

Barry.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Barry wrote:
Is the "Set roof edge angle" tool in the pet palette not what you are after?
You can alter the angle of each edge separately or make all the same with this tool.

...which works in 3D as well as in plan. Working in 3D has its advantages with this feature since you have immediate visual feedback.

This is something that is covered in a basic introductory 2 day training ... IMHO no user should even start a project before they understand what every pet palette button does in every mode (edge and node) for each tool... among a wealth of other essential knowledge. [soapbox]

Karl

[Anonymous]

The class I took in ArchiCad never got that far. Thank you for the information I new I had to be missing something.