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Anonymous
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i need to make a series of roof planes that are not coplanar, they're accualy irregular rectancles with 4 different hights. all those planes are conected in order to form a big boathouse roof. any ideas how to make it?
below the frame i built in Autocad so you can have an idea.

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Your best bet is probably the Mesh to Roof Tool. Create a mesh and then convert it to a roof. It's a goodie. Go to Help > ArchiCAD 10 Goodies to download it.

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Djordje
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If at least two end points are at the same level, then use roofs.

If all the points are on different levels, use the mesh. If you need thickness, then copy it downwards and subtract with SEO.

Mesh to Roof can be useful, but I do think that the mesh tool is the best in this case.

MaxonForm, ArchiForma, GDL Toolbox (seemingly not available for 10 any more?) come to mind ...
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tatirocha wrote:
i need to make a series of roof planes that are not coplanar, they're accualy irregular rectancles with 4 different hights. all those planes are conected in order to form a big boathouse roof. any ideas how to make it?
below the frame i built in Autocad so you can have an idea.

Use sketchup

I LOVE SKETCHUP, U can draw that roof in sketchup and transfer it to AC in 5 minutes. If u dont know how send me that drawing and i will draw roof for u !!!!

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Anonymous
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COOL! thank you so much! it works!