Roof Beams

[cmeaux29]

I created a roof beam in my project but it is not displaying in 3D View. Any suggestions? 

[GeneDavis]

Use camera "perspective framing overview" and ensure the layer on which your beam sits is turned on.

[tundra_dweller]

In addition to Gene's post (which I would bet is most likely going to solve your problem) make sure to check what elevation your roof beam is coming in at. It might be building in-plane with the rafters like a ridge board, where it might not be visible from the inside camera views, or it may come in under the rafters where it should be visible if the roof beam layer is turned on.

[cmeaux29]

It looks like the layer is on. How do I check the elevation its coming in at? 

[cmeaux29]

[GeneDavis]

Roof beams when "drawn" model immediately below the structure envelope of the roof.  Note how it works.  You draw it by clicking an origin point and drag and release.

 

A roof beam is a drop beam, in structural parlance.  It is placed under the rafters envelope with the rafters bearing immediately on it.  Roof beams are commonly placed horizontally under the ridge of joining roofs, and the rafters top ends lap or butt with no ridge member between, the rafters bearing on the dropped beam.

 

Their when-drawn size is controlled in the framing defaults for roof members, and the size (4x12, etc.) can be edited after a member is placed.  A member's location can be edited with x y and z movement, and angle movements.  I have never understood the angle part. 
 

Eric shows the member exiting the plane's envelope into space.  It was drawn that way.  It got its slope attitude from the origin point and the drag direction and limit.

 

Describe for us what this beam is to do.