Alaskan_Son

It seems that there are 2 entirely different things being discussed here and they require very different approaches: 1. Simply adjusting the shape of a single roof plane in plan view to get a curved edge. 2. Building a roof with a complex segmented/truncated cone shape. I think it’s important to clarify what the real goal is.

There are a few methods, but the quickest general approach is to do as Chopsaw mentioned above and use boolean operations. You could easily just draw with CAD and then essentially convert the CAD to roof plane(s) similar to the following: Prior to Polyline Union.... After Polyline Union... Last step is to convert arcs to polylines using as many or as few Sides as you wish...

Here's my advice in a nutshell (just the basics and leaving out all the various options and power tips): Get some basic roof elevation information. Open a blank plan and generate a quick terrain based on that roof info. Copy/paste hold position the required roof shape into your new terrain plan. Draw railing to the desired roof shape on your terrain using a No Room Definition Railing Wall set to Follow Terrain. Open a 3D view in your terrain plan, turn the terrain off, and Convert the railings to a symbol. Place the railing symbol into your original plan and position it where it goes.

When you have a bunch of CAD segments that are disconnected but otherwise share the same end nodes and have the same basic properties, you can do this to quickly connect them all. Group select any group that you want to connect with each other Click on either the Trim or Extend tool Click a blank area of your screen to finish

We've used them whenever we don't have the headroom for a standard belt drive. The operation is a little different because there is some lag time when opening and closing due to the door lock needing to engage and disengage. Because of the locking operation, unfamiliar users may think something isn't working and interrupt the operation with multiple button pushes. Also, you have to make sure to remember and plan your outlet and any roughed-in sensor/control wires accordingly.

I’m not commenting either.

Select the desired face item, click on the Appliance/Door/Drawer Specify button, and then study those settings.

The thing is that you can use things like that with Auto Rebuild. You don't need to turn the auto feature off to utilize temporary points. You just have to think a little outside the box. You use the temporary points to quickly find things like required Overhang settings, required Upper Pitch In From Baseline values, etc. I put the deck room into a different Roof Group so that it would generate it's own roof independently of the main roof. The problem though is that the main roof needs a Hip Wall and the Deck roof needs a High Shed/Gable wall, so I drew in a .01" thick invisible wall at this location.... ...that's the wall controlling the overhang. By the way, there are other options as well such as using Roof Baseline Polylines.

Yes and no. In this case I can certainly agree, but then again, where do you draw the line? Complex auto roofs usually require placing gable lines, placing wall breaks, going into multiple dialog boxes, changing various settings, etc. Is this really that much different just because a couple of the extra steps are out of the norm? Its all time consuming. We just have to decide on a case by basis where to draw the line. For me, I guess that line typically lies wherever I have to place a wall break or draw an otherwise unnecessary wall.

Therein lies the rub. The devil is in the details when forcing automatic roofs to do things they weren’t really designed to do. In this case, it requires using an extra wall, using multiple roof groups, and to answer your question more specifically, it requires setting that intersection in question by using overhang dimensions.

You bet. For the record, this CAN actually be done with auto roofs, it's just not worth the hassle in my opinion...or I don't know, maybe it is. Probably depends a bit on the rest of the project and on how likely the other roof planes are to change. Quick Example.plan

This is absolutely incorrect. Whoever wrote that was just plain wrong. Anyway, for the example you've posted, it takes a matter of seconds to do manually. For a dual pitch roof, there are some tricks to very quickly find the upper pitch intersection so you can plug it into the Roof directives.

Good tip. To add to it though: If you're using Google, you can actually just right click anywhere on the map and then left click on the coordinates that pop up and they'll copy to your clipboard...

Its not clear to me whether you're looking for roof planes that join or roof planes that remain separate. In other words, are you looking for a dual pitch roof (i.e an automatically calculated upper pitch) or are you looking for a second roof plane that simply sits independently on top of the first?

Start drawing the plans sideways, rotate layout box, or change scale would be my first few choices.

A few ways, but the easiest is to just build the winders using Landings.

No. I didn't even open the plan. Just offering some quick thoughts in passing.

Why? That's what they're for. As long as you're using a different layer set for you camera view it should have no effect on any of your plan views.

Did you try unchecking Automatic and just using a Light Set?

I would recommend looking at Archicad.

Things like this can pretty easily be done using a good macro recorder. I use this one.... https://www.jitbit.com/macro-recorder/ Its a pretty robust little tool that you can use to automate all sorts of tasks.

There are lots of materials list and schedule features you could probably be taking advantage of, but for starters, you can actually rename/repurpose any given column in the schedule by opening the Materials List Specification dialog, clicking on the Columns panel and then triple clicking on the column you would like to rename. In this example, I relabeled the ID column for clarification, repurposed the Sub Category column, and placed the schedule number macro in the Default Cabinet Components information. Maybe that will get you started down a path to more robust automation. If you need some more in depth help though, fell free to shoot me over an email and we can discuss further.

This really depends a lot on what you're trying to do. Can you expand a bit on what you're attempting to accomplish?

Chief can do that automatically....

Sorry, I've been been out of town. Like I mentioned in that post, I just customized a font to switch the space and dash characters. I've even customized fonts to provide the stacked fractions you're looking for. Unfortunately, the stacked fractions require custom macros as well and so they can only be used with polylines or other objects with labels. Anyway, I see that Rene stepped in and offered some modified fonts free of charge to use along with my idea so I'm guessing you're good to go but I do offer font modification as one of my support service, so if you need any assistance with that type of thing in the future, please feel free to shoot me over an email to alaskansons@gmail.com and I'll see what I can do.