Manual Roofs

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Manual Roofs

Play Video Introductory Training Video: Drawing Roofs Manually

Before automatically generating roofs, it is important to understand how the manual roof editing tools can be used to create and edit roof planes. The manual roof editing tools take advantage of the parameters of neighboring roof planes and walls to partially automate the process of drawing a roof plan.

Creating a roof plane is a simple task. Once created it can be edited in two ways.

The shape of the roof plane can be changed. The shape of a roof plane is edited in 2D just like a CAD polyline.

The orientation of the roof plane can be edited in 3D. As a roof plane is stretched and reshaped in 2D, the program maintains the 3D orientation of the plane being edited. The location of this plane can be redefined using the Roof Plane Specification dialog. See "Roof Plane Specification Dialog". This dialog allows the roof plane location and direction to be adjusted.

An understanding of these two concepts allows you to design almost any kind of roof.

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