roof surfacer upside down

[Anonymous]

I had this same problem in 7.* but no solution, but I never asked the question either THe procedure I use is to select the roof go to extras and select roof accessories and then roof surfacer apply settings, in this case none, and BAM there we go. I look in the 3d window to check how it looks and the tiles are going up hill. What am I doing wrong?

[Anonymous]

Shae,
I managed to reproduce the roof surface being upside down.
I made a roof with a negative roof pitch and then used
the roof surfacer and the Italian Tiles were upside down.
Maybe that is what is causing the problem.
Peter Devlin

[vfrontiers]

Peter wrote:
Shae,
I managed to reproduce the roof surface being upside down.
I made a roof with a negative roof pitch and then used
the roof surfacer and the Italian Tiles were upside down.
Maybe that is what is causing the problem.
Peter Devlin

You are close [to the reason and the solution]....

My best guess [unconfirmed] is that the direction is determined by the drawing of the roof slab [clockwise or ccw] or the spring line... I cannot determine how it calcs this... BUT...

to resolve it, simply grab one end of the spring line and drag it to the other side of the other end of the spring line [your roof will be pitching the wrong way now]... THEN stick a MINUS sign in front of the PITCH in the INFO BOX.... and the tiles will invert for you... If they are still LINKED, you will not need to create a new set of tiles....

[vfrontiers]

While we're talking about ROOF SURFACER... DYK...

If you modify a roof with the surfacer layer turned off, the surfacer will be incorrect when you turn them back on... To correct this... simply select the ROOF SURFACER, cmd-t [open settings] and say OK... it will heal itself to the roof modifications.

[Anonymous]

Duane,
You say in your post "If they are still LINKED".
How do you unlink them?
Peter Devlin

[Djordje]

Shae wrote:
I had this same problem in 7.* but no solution, but I never asked the question either THe procedure I use is to select the roof go to extras and select roof accessories and then roof surfacer apply settings, in this case none, and BAM there we go. I look in the 3d window to check how it looks and the tiles are going up hill. What am I doing wrong?

A screen shot would help your problem explanation?

[__archiben]

and whilst we're on the topic of the roof surfacer:

(i'm using the 'standing seam' type)

• switching from simple 3D to detailed 3D generates a GDL error every time no matter how i fiddle with the parameters.
• 2D detailed view, always stays at 400mm centred sheets no matter what i set it to.

. . . or is it just me?

~/archiben

[vfrontiers]

Peter wrote:
Duane,
You say in your post "If they are still LINKED".
How do you unlink them?
Peter Devlin

If, for some reason, you cut and paste the SURFACE, it is no longer linked....