Roof Returns


Hatrak
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Am I missing something? ,cos that's what the Auto Roof return settings are for eg the pic below is a 42" Return with a 12" extension and hip roof (and ridgecaps and gutters turned on) 

 

why would you do it manually?

 

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Edit ...I see you found the answer while I was doing the test plan above :)

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Don't think that would work, Larry. Because it extends the main roof, it has to be the same pitch. What's a bit misleading, is that in both the article mentioned above, as well as what is shown in the X1 reference manual I have, only three examples are shown, while excluding the extended one. I just natually thot that was the only automatically way it could be done, so just glossed over the "extension" mention. Silly me!

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David, it is not you. While the documentation in Chief is generally pretty good, there are situations where it could be made much better. This is one of those cases. I usually hit the Help button at the bottom of the dialog box if I am not certain about what a setting signifies, but even here the explanation seems to be somewhat lacking. And so yes, they could have easily included a picture of one of the three return styles using the Extend feature. Another case where a picture is worth a thousand words

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