6 replies to this topic

[Keith Almond]

You can't make it do it itself, you have to get a little creative ...

 

Draw with lines where the roof will invert, then add a hole to delete the parts of the roof you don't want ... a diamond shape (mine's square since I couldn't be bothered changing the pitches) ... then use a roof plane to fill in the missing triangle.

 

[Chris Proost]

I've needed to do this for several designs, would love SoftPlan to make it a click of a button type thingy.

[randolph cohn]

don't have 2014 on my computer any more. only 2016 & 2018

 

i did this in 2018,

right roof at 8 pitch and left roof at 6 pitch.

 

procedure used:

 

first drew all the wall, 

house (on left) at 24' wide,

garage (on right) at 36' wide,

 

did an AUTO ROOF using 6" pitch (could of used 8" pitch) - set this in "roof options" in roof mode.

 

all i did to get the correct pitches on each roof was to EDIT the hip edges as needed.

 

left click to enlarge

 

 

to softplan users, if you have v2014 on your computer, let us know if it works in 2014

 

 

 

 

[randolph cohn]

i posted an answer  using 2018 and it works easily.

waiting for moderator to OK the answer .

maybe the delay because of an image showing the answer

in a minute or so > very easy with 2018, 

[Keith Almond]

Randy, It only works like that with a reasonably simple roof. it won't do that if you have two roofs with an intersection. Sometimes AUTO ROOF just won't do it.

[randolph cohn]

your right keith.

i suggested this way just in case he didn't try this procedure in v2014.

roofs started working really good in 2014, compared to previous versions.

 

i learns SP in v10 with tom roman as my instructor,  talk about aggravation with roofs !

i also learned a lot of new swear words from tom.