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.

 

[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 23 hours ago by JKEdmo
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