Heal Heights

[aereed82]

Does anyone know how to put different heel heights on individual roof planes? Example, if you have an 8/12 roof meeting a 12/12 roof and want to maintain a 24" overhang. By default it changes my overhang from 24" on the one plane to 16" on the other. 

Edited January 4, 2023 by aereed82
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[JKEdmo]

If you search for phrase "heel heights" in the forum, there are a number of posts that might help.

 

Jim

 

 

[glennw]

Uncheck Same Roof Height at Exterior Walls.

Chief will move the Baselines out so that the overhangs will be the same - the default Roof Overhang.

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[robdyck]

10 hours ago, aereed82 said:

Does anyone know how to put different heel heights on individual roof planes? Example, if you have an 8/12 roof meeting a 12/12 roof and want to maintain a 24" overhang.

IMO there are 2 main data points to set these elevations; Baseline Height and Fascia Top Height.

The roof plane baseline should remain exactly aligned at the exterior of the wall top plate. For joining varying roof pitches, you should first set the desired Baseline Height for the lower pitch roof plane. Then copy the Fascia Top Height from the lower pitch roof and apply that elevation to the higher pitch roof, and ensure the Pitch is locked.

The elevation of the roof Baseline Height minus the wall top plate elevation will then equal the truss heel height.

 

Depending on your roof default settings, Chief may not report the Top of Plate elevation correctly in the Roof Plane Specification dialog, so it is important that you inherently know the top plate elevation.