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[D M]

Could someone please tell me the ( I’m sure painfully obvious but apparently not to me )

solution to filling in the soffit and fascia at the top of a shed roof?

I’ve searched the archives to no avail, ..

I’ve currently drawn the roof edge as a vertical incline, .. which greys out the soffit and fascia options, ..

I’ve tried a hip with the appropriate higher heel height to suit the slope, ..

Any help much appreciated, .. the next trick will be the rake top prow, (but maybe another day)

 

Thanks, ..

Doug

[Keith Almond]

If I remember rightly, If you draw it as a shed roof ..... by using the DRAW>ADD SHED ROOF, and just select the "hip" wall, and edge edit the other three to be gables, it should work. Although the soffit (at least in 2014) is still a little odd.

[randolph cohn]

draw the top edge as a "gable" and than check out

the tab for "soffit / fascia and make sure their checked.

 

note: the edge can be plumb or raked /

[D M]

Thanks, ..

 

I'll try both tomorrow, .. I think I've tried almost every other combination of things.

 

Doug

[D M]

Well, .. I tried the top edge as 'gable' but only got the fascia to show, .. with the soffit/fascia tab showing both checked on.

 

I'm sure it can be done, .. I've seen renderings posted here that have accomplished it somehow, ..

(I really don't understand why it should be such a fuss to get the software to do such a simple thing)

 

Understandably, most shed roofs butt into a vertical wall, so the soffit/fascia particulars are moot, but still, ..

 

Guess I'll keep tinkering with it, ..

[Chris Stewart]

maybe set the soffit to rake

[Keith Almond]

The soffit may not look like it's there if it's plumb, try it raked. Works for me!

 

Damn, Chris beat me to it!

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[Thomas Davis]

Try drawing a standard roof and change the top, left, and right to gables, and the lower bottom edge to a hip.

Edit the gable ends and exclude gable end wall finish and edit the gable walls to fit to roof.

That worked for me.

[D M]

Thanks, ..

 

The soffit will show with Fascia at Rake and Soffit at Rake, .. disappears with Fascia at Plumb, .. which unfortunately would be my construction preference, .. but for future Renderings ,.. I guess with the right camera angle, who's really going to notice the difference.

 

 

Doug

[Keith Almond]

Odd ... mine still had the fascia Plumb.

[D M]

OK, .. got it, .. sort of ..

 

Have tried variations and combinations of all your helpful suggestions and have found at least one combination that works for me.

 

 

Fascia set to Plumb, .. but the fascia depth (on the edge in question) is calculated to suit the plumb cut dimension (or slightly larger) that results with the given pitch.

 

The closer the bottom edges of the adjacent fascias are, the better the software connects the two, .. too much of a difference and the program seems to omit the soffit

 

I'm thinking the software should just automatically generate the ideal result, and I'm sure some of you DO get that, but until it plays right for me too, .. I'll use the altered fascia depth thing.

 

Thanks for all your ideas.

 

 

Doug

[Chris Stewart]

It is always somewhat tricky to get unusual and complicated roofs to work but as you do them you find procedures that work better than others and you learn all the little settings and adjustments to try. 

I agree -shed roofs are not so unusual that they should be left out

[D M]

Lots of tricky things for sure, .. I've also found that to make some roofs work, it's a matter of sequencing, .. place 'this' first before placing 'that', ..

 

Admittedly, .. all 'software' sits and waits for input and in some cases returns its best interpretation of the request, .. some times it 'guesses' (  ) incorrectly, but with a slightly altered input it provides the desired result.