BeeoHat Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 I'm having a devil of a time trying to change a pitch on a portion of my garage roof. As shown in the image, I have a small gable wall section one side of the roof. When I open up the dialogue box, and increase the pitch of this roof section, there is no change. Whenever I change the pitch of the rest of the roof, by selecting all wall sections except the gable piece, all pitches change, including the gable section. Is there some order I must follow to accomplish this?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinnieVicon Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Are you drawing the roof using automatic roofs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeoHat Posted April 8, 2014 Author Share Posted April 8, 2014 I use the Build>Roof>Build Roof>Build Roof Planes. Is that what you mean by automatic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Did you use a gable line at the window in plan view? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeoHat Posted April 8, 2014 Author Share Posted April 8, 2014 Yes. I broke the wall so that I could designate that portion as a full gable wall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskan_Son Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 You should probably attach a plan. You will almost always get a much quicker more accurate response that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Carrick Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 I throw a Curve, Fast Ball and a Slider - at least I used to. I'm not sure if I can throw a Fast Ball anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 You have to select those 2 roof planes and change them also Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution CJSpud Posted April 8, 2014 Solution Share Posted April 8, 2014 If your small gable is the only two roof planes you want to change, select both of them, then lock the fascia top setting and plug in your new pitch. Since your gable is to be steepened, you'll need to rejoin the gable roof planes to the main roof planes by selecting each gable roof plane near the valley intersection - hit the number 2 key (shortcut for join roof planes) - then select the larger roof plane on the opposite side of the valley .... then repeat the process for the opposite side. That should be all there is to it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 To keep things so that the roof will build automatically, I would remove the seperate piece of gable wall and make it all one wall. To get the gabel roof to generate over that bit of wall, use a Gable/Roof Line. This will keep everything so that you can retain the auto roof building. The reason you cant control the roof pitch by the gabel wall is that......da, da,.....it is a gable wall and gable walls can't hold roof information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneDavis Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 He wants his gable with a steeper pitch than the rest of the roof. I don't see a way of doing an auto-build where one can specify in the gable line dialog, a pitch for the gable planes. The pitch is set by the wall over which the gable lies. Maybe we should suggest to Chief, an enhancement for the next build? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electromen Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 If you post your plan, I can show you how to build the roof planes manually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerryT Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 This is straight forward -- Use the gable line tool in front of the window or whatever. -- However this tool only uses the pitch set in the default build roof tool. Build the roof in auto. Then select the gable planes, open and set their pitch to whatever you want. then reconnect each plane with the main roof plane with the join tool. No need for manual planes other than the reconnection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeoHat Posted April 9, 2014 Author Share Posted April 9, 2014 Many thanks for all contributions. Special thanks to Curt Johnson, whose clear directions were easily followed and the results were perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskan_Son Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Many thanks for all contributions. Special thanks to Curt Johnson, whose clear directions were easily followed and the results were perfect. In the future, just bear in mind it took a lot of guesses to give you an answer that may have only taken one had your posted a plan. Not trying to be rude, its just a fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC-1701 Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 And I gave Curt 'reputation' point for his answer! Good Work! May more follow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJSpud Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Thanks BeeoHat ... glad I could help. And thank you Bill ... I thought I knew what the simple solution to BeeoHat's problem was and it sounds like my solution was what was needed. On many occasions I have either misunderstood what a person's question was or I didn't completely read the post and got off on the wrong direction with my answer. I am going to have to pay more attention to dishing out reputation points myself as I get a lot of good tips from other users for using Chief. That experience that is passed down more than likely took a lot of practice and study in using Chief and everyone that passes their knowledge on to others needs to be thanked .... and given some of those reputation points. I guess I will have to read up on how to do those RP's ... is that what the green arrow does? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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