Unable to draw a multi-pitch as-built roof between 2 hip roofs

[CanadaChristine]

Hi all

I was hoping for some help and/or suggestions on how to best produce the multi-pitch roof set between 2 hip roof planes on this as-built. I've tried using the auto functions, and doing things manually, with no success yet. I'm returning to Chief after a 15 year absence, so I'm essentially a newby on the program.

 

The attached photo shows the house I'm working with.  It's not obvious on the picture, but the front roof plane is double pitch.  Lower pitch is 3/12, upper pitch is 5/12. 

 

Thanks so much in advance!

Koster 1.1.plan

[Chrisb222]

43 minutes ago, CanadaChristine said:

Hi all

I was hoping for some help and/or suggestions on how to best produce the multi-pitch roof set between 2 hip roof planes on this as-built. I've tried using the auto functions, and doing things manually, with no success yet. I'm returning to Chief after a 15 year absence, so I'm essentially a newby on the program.

 

The attached photo shows the house I'm working with.  It's not obvious on the picture, but the front roof plane is double pitch.  Lower pitch is 3/12, upper pitch is 5/12. 

 

Thanks so much in advance!

Koster 1.1.plan 9 MB · 0 downloads

 

I'm not at a computer, but with auto roofs on, select the porch railing wall, open it and go to the Roof tab. There you have the option to specify two roof pitches for the roof plane bearing on the railing wall.

[CanadaChristine]

I tried that, but it didn't work for me.  It just generated a single slope roof in line with the garage fascia again

????

 

 

[glennw]

You may need to change your default roof slopes to 5:12 to match this front roof or leave them at 6:12 if that is really what you want.

Turn on auto roofs.

Then try this:

 

 

[CanadaChristine]

Awesome Glenn!  Thanks you so much.  I didn't have auto roofs turned on   Told you I'm an old newby.  I'll play with it from here on, but if there are any quick suggestions on how to clean up the front of this roof, I'd be much obliged.  The front fascia is continuous all the way along.  In other words, porch fascia matches that of the porch in plane and elevation.

 

I guess I should have specified that I'm using X15 on a Mac.  Last time I used Chief was the 2006 version 10

 

Thanks again, Christine

Edited April 24, 2023 by CanadaChristine
forgot to include an attachment before posting

[Chrisb222]

5 hours ago, CanadaChristine said:

I didn't have auto roofs turned on 

 

Uh! 

 

On 4/22/2023 at 3:06 PM, Chrisb222 said:

I'm not at a computer, but with auto roofs on, select the porch railing wall, open it and go to the Roof tab. There you have the option to specify two roof pitches for the roof plane bearing on the railing wall.

 

 

5 hours ago, CanadaChristine said:

any quick suggestions on how to clean up the front of this roof. In other words, porch fascia matches that of the porch in plane and elevation.

 

I run into this a lot, where two roof planes with different pitches cause the overhangs to act strangely. I recently sent it in to tech support and they basically said, yeah, it's "incorrect functionality" and "we don't know when it will be fixed, switch to manual roofs." 

 

 

[CanadaChristine]

ok, so I'm not sure where to start with manual roofs. The current roof structure is actually rafters, with the main front roof bearing on the wall between porch and living space (brick veneer wall), and the lower sloped roof bearing on a hidden beam supported by the iron porch posts.

 

[CanadaChristine]

Got it figured out.   Thanks for the help, Y'all