Standing Seam Metal Roof

[jtcapa1]

Like many of you, I've been taking advantage of CA's growing ability to accurately display building elements in 3d, and have moved away from Textures when I need that extra detail in a 3d rendering. 

I'm wondering if there are any simpler ways to achieve this look of a standing seam roof without inserting 3d models from sketchup, stretch them, rotate, space, rinse and repeat.

This looks great, but takes far to much time.

 

 

Edited 19 hours ago by jtcapa1
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[GeneDavis]

First thing I though of was hey would't it be good if we had a way to do material regions on roof planes.  But that would be tedious for all the houses with more, maybe a lot more, then two or four planes.  They there would be the need for properly raised hip and ridge caps, and a way to properly do valleys, holding the roof ribs back from the valley lines.

 

So I though, OK, Revit must certainly be able to 3D model standing seam.  But this video suggests no, because it is by a Revit user doing it with a workaround that uses Revit's "greenhouse roofs" tools.

 

 

[Rookie65]

Is it not in the chief library? Home Designer Pro has it 

[JKEdmo]

Try messing around with a distribution region.  It can in fact be set so that the elevation references a roof plane.

 

Here I drew the region across my roof in plan:

 

I defined a skinny box to be distributed 18" o.c.  This will act as the standing seam.

 

 

Here's the part that makes the region match the roof plane:

 

 

Here's the result below in 3D.  Note that the 3D distribution region objects are the white "slats."  (The dark grey standing seam is just standard material texture.  I happened to be working on a SS roof at the time).

 

 

 

 

First time I tried this, but I think the Distribution Region could be finessed to make this work.

 

Jim

 

P.S. Doing this in X17.

Edited July 3 by JKEdmo
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[jtcapa1]

Some clever work-arounds, but instead of a distributed region, couldn't the roof be created using a skylight tool?

[RobDesLLC]

17 hours ago, jtcapa1 said:

Some clever work-arounds, but instead of a distributed region, couldn't the roof be created using a skylight tool?

 

I've found that the skylight generates a shaft that protrudes through the soffit when the skylight is extended to the edge of the roof plane.

[Renerabbitt]

Very very easy to do using opacity maps with materials on thin stacked layers in your roof surface. Weve been able to do this for years actually, I've just personally never shared that trick before

[mthd97]

I haven’t tried this in CA yet but is it possible to draw the profile of the metal standing seam sheet using a 3D molding polyline and then extrude it ? I have drawn corrugated curved roof sheets in CA but I have only used a surface texture to represent the corrugations in the metal. I am sure there are other methods too available in CA right now.

[jtcapa1]

I played around with using a double roof system. Like Rene, it was 'very very easy'...▼

 

[Renerabbitt]