CaseyT Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 I'm trying to create the roof / cathedral ceilings for an as-built of a rectangular house where the north and south exterior walls are 8' tall and 28' apart, and there is a parallel load bearing interior wall that is off-set from the mid line by 3.5' and is 9'-5" tall. There is no ridge beam, the rafters simply sit on this interior load bearing wall (and opposite pairs of rafters are off-set so they sit next to each other and are nailed together). The ceiling drywall is simply screwed to the underside of the rafters (which are 2x8s). I don't know the roof pitch, only the heights of the walls and the distance between them. Is there a way to get the roof planes (with the two different unknown pitches) to sit on both the exterior and the interior walls? I thought maybe if I lock the ridge height I could pivot the roof plane down so that it set on the exterior walls, but I don't see a way to do that? Trying to lock to the baseline height results in a mismatched roof elevation at the ridge given the off-set. Is there a way to pivot the roof planes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 You don't even have to do the math to work it out. Draw a simple section view with cad and let Chief do the math. Your roof angles are 7.683982 and 4.628138 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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