madcowscarnival Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 I've modeled an existing house with a fairly complex roof in a drawing file. I now need to show a fairly extensive addition on this house. I want to leave the existing roof model completely untouched then use auto build on the addition roof. Is the appropriate move to make the existing house a block in the drawing (sounds too simplistic)? Or make a model in this drawing file, start a new one for the addition and place the existing model in there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tundra_dweller Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 What I would do is keep the existing plan file as your as-built, then save new copy of the as-built plan for addition, model your addition as needed with auto roofs as far as you can in the addition plan, and let the existing roof do what it will. Once you get the addition roof how you want it, make sure auto roof build is off, delete the "new" roof planes on the existing part of the home, and copy-paste in place all the roof planes from your as-built plan into the addition plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcowscarnival Posted March 11 Author Share Posted March 11 Brett, Thanks. I had not considered doing it like that. Actually a preferable method too (I may want to show windows on exstg. for ortho views. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tundra_dweller Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 Yep, and if your existing roof planes on the addition plan ever get goofed up for whatever reason, you can always go back to the as-built and get them again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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