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Trim a Roof to a Roof....

Anonymous
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SO, I am wokring on a building and on the same story I have about 7 different roof heights/Pitches etc... I am wondering if can trim a roof to a roof. I think this question makes sense to me, I hope it does to someone out there with an answer too.
Thank You.
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Anonymous
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You should be able to do it the same way you find ridges, valleys etc.

Select the roof you want to match to, then ctrl-click the edge of a roof you want to trim/extend to the first roof, and it will find the position where the two roof planes meet. Reverse the selection and ctrl-click process for the other roof.

HTH
Anonymous
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That's awesome, thank you. I see that that finds where the roof meet for me, which is great, but it doesnt trim the roff underneith, so to do that I just use the "subtract from polygon" tool?
Anonymous
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Not quite sure what you mean. Can you post a screen shot?
Anonymous
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Well, I am not so sure that I know exactly what I mean either, But what ever I did, it is working out. So i am going to go with it for now.
As for a screen shot, I am new to this, could you explain how I do that, cause that will probably be helpful to me when I have more questions.
Thank You!
Anonymous
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Various options for screen shots discussed elsewhere in this forum. Try a search (near top of screen). I just hit the Print Screen button then paste as new image in photoshop, crop, saveas... Mac is different I believe.

As advised by others too, it is handy to add your system info to your signature in your profile so people know what you're using, helps with answering questions.

Cheers
Anonymous
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On the Mac, you hit command + shift + 4. this presents you
with a cursor in the form of a circle and cross hairs which
you drag across that portion of the screen that you want
a picture of. In OS X, a .PDF with the title "Picture One" will appear
on the desktop. In OS previous to OS X a Pict file of the same
name is placed in the hard drive directory at the top level.
Peter Devlin
Barry Kelly
Moderator
Jesikuh123 wrote:
That's awesome, thank you. I see that that finds where the roof meet for me, which is great, but it doesnt trim the roff underneith, so to do that I just use the "subtract from polygon" tool?
Just repeat the same thing but in reverse.

Select first roof and CTRL-click second roo edge.
Now select second roof and CTRL-click first roof edge.

Barry.
One of the forum moderators.
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