decorators3 Posted October 18 Share Posted October 18 Hi I'm attaching a roof plan with the PDF elevations. I have built the home ok no problem - windows doors etc. but not sure how to read this roof schematic .. I have started it (Gables are in place - the rest is a mess - wondering if I should start again and manually build the gable roofs first and then join to hips . I had the program build the roof and tried to redefine buy got pretty messy any advice is welcome again thanks in advance House Plan (1).pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneDavis Posted October 18 Share Posted October 18 Post the Chief plan. Looks like the plans are done, job al ready for permit and build. Are you copying this for practice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
decorators3 Posted October 18 Author Share Posted October 18 1 hour ago, GeneDavis said: Post the Chief plan. Looks like the plans are done, job al ready for permit and build. Are you copying this for practice? This is not practice. Clients send me their house plans so I can build it and show them the various siding and roofing options colors materials etc with so many options for people its sometimes hard to make a decision without seeing it on their your home then they can order the siding etc knowing how its going to look . I have a clot of client that do this. the architect does the design and I create the look. its just that this roof has me stumped Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robdyck Posted October 18 Share Posted October 18 It's quite likely that if you post your Chief plan file, someone will probably fix the roofs for you! It's a very simple roof plan so it wouldn't take that long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneDavis Posted October 18 Share Posted October 18 I did a screencap of the roof plan view, pasted it into a new file, drew the perimeter walls, set all the needed roof directives in the needed walls, letting it autoroof as I went along, then in 3D (vector view, no color, toggle patterns OFF) edited the roof planes at rear (delete two and edit the one that has the eave line per plan) and here it is. The shed dormer needs to be done manually as auto-roof does not do dormers. What's the problem? And if any auto-roofing gurus are here in the room, tell us how you get this one to autobuild at the rear plane. Here is what the wall-jog at rear produces in auto roof. There is a wall jog of about two feet. The architect plan extends the overhang at the longer segment so there is one common roof plane as shown above. What do you do in Chief to make that roof plane generate as one (as edited by me) and not produce the two planes that I deleted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNestor Posted October 18 Share Posted October 18 Post the plan...someone will fix it for you or make you a quick video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
decorators3 Posted October 18 Author Share Posted October 18 (edited) this is not for practice..I am not an architect I am a designer,, I do not build houses but can do floor plans and design simple houses. Mostly I create 3D models and rendering service from clients house plans and assist them with adding various materials and colors to the exteriors and interiors so they can see the concept idea before they order products. Been doing this for many years but every now and then a roof comes along that I just cant get it, maybe its a blind spot or my brain - not sure - some of you are probably laughing at this and I don't blame you ha ha Anyway I've loaded the plan with my errors left in so you can see I tried.. If some one can assist that's great I am willing to pay -- Thanks in advance for this forum and its help Levinasample of messy roof.plan sample of messy roof.plan Edited October 18 by decorators3 cant seem to upload it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneDavis Posted October 18 Share Posted October 18 I'm not gonna open your plan, but here is mine. I believe it meets the specs, pitch wise and roof-plane-arrangement-wise, as what the architect drew. Canada roof.plan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
decorators3 Posted October 18 Author Share Posted October 18 1 hour ago, GeneDavis said: I'm not gonna open your plan, but here is mine. I believe it meets the specs, pitch wise and roof-plane-arrangement-wise, as what the architect drew. Canada roof.plan 6.63 MB · 0 downloads THANK YOU!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
decorators3 Posted October 18 Author Share Posted October 18 thank you Levinasample of messy roof.plan sample of messy roof.plan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHCanada2 Posted October 19 Share Posted October 19 9 hours ago, GeneDavis said: And if any auto-roofing gurus are here in the room, tell us how you get this one to autobuild at the rear plane change the eave to 54" and build roof with same height eaves: autobuilt: but it wont work on the right wall. it will only work to 50". I've seen this before, not sure why. 50" 54" its like oh so close..but just will not do it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHCanada2 Posted October 19 Share Posted October 19 and then if you do it the other way, where you specify 54" in the build roof dialog, it works for those walls but not two others ...go figure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHCanada2 Posted October 19 Share Posted October 19 and rene showed a video on the semi autonomous way last month using baseline polyline. Auto built can be left on, and you only have to move the polyline instead of editing the roof plane. Attached is shown for this one where I took Gene's plan, turned on auto rebuild and built the roof planes (in order to delete the edited planes), then created a baseline polyline, then edited the two segments. CA then builds the roof to match 18.10.2024_21.59.01_REC.mp4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted October 19 Share Posted October 19 I would normally just throw an invisible wall across the recess and auto build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneDavis Posted Sunday at 01:01 AM Share Posted Sunday at 01:01 AM Ackshully , @glennw it turns out to be easier than that. Just extend the adjacent walls across their nearby bump-ins, autobuild the roof, and then unclick autobuild in the build roof dialog, and drag those wall ends back to where they were. You end up with a big chunk of the baseline out there in the bump-in where the wall was, but its a couple of quick clicks and drags to nip them back where they belong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark3D Posted Sunday at 01:36 AM Share Posted Sunday at 01:36 AM On 10/19/2024 at 8:42 AM, decorators3 said: thank you Levinasample of messy roof.plan sample of messy roof.planUnavailable Your file is unavailable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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