Chop Roof

I have completely forgotten if there is a way to make these two roofs meet, ie continue right hand roof pitch up to meet the left hand roof

Yes, Make a diamond shape hole in the top roof, and add a roof plane into the resulting triangular hole in the roof.

follow keiths method

or

you can change the left hand roof to a "dutch gable"

and ADJUST the EDGE of that roof until the red dashed line

overlaps the ridge of the right had roof.

or draw the 2 roofs as one by the trace method.

here's using the dutch gable method since they are two separate roofs.

If it’s possible to trace one roof outline around the walls that form the ‘T’,

Softplan should be able to generate the slope extension on its own.

Oops, .. Randy beat me to it.

Got to admit, I'm NOT seeing ... or understanding how a "Dutch Gable" will work there.

Thanks. I knew I had done it before.

keith,

i made the left roofs walls wider than the right roofs walls

which made the ridge higher.

than i edited the left roofs edge that will be intersecting

with the right roofs ridge to be a "Dutch Gable".

and "adjusted the left roofs dutch gable edge until

the "red dashed line"  was directly over the ridge of

the right roof. 

picture shows what it looks like "Before adjusting" the dutch

gable edge.

It's the "Dutch Gable" terminology that's throwing me. I thought a "Dutch Gable" was the other way up.

Not at a Softplan machine right now, so I borrowed this from the softplantuts site ...

You're right Keith.  I think Randy is talking about a Bull nose.  All you have to do is set the pitch of the bull nose and adjust the length until it meets up with the other roof. 

It's the "Dutch Gable" terminology that's throwing me. I thought a "Dutch Gable" was the other way up.

 

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Not at a Softplan machine right now, so I borrowed this from the softplantuts site ...

A Dutch Bull-Gable-Nose Roof - that must've been the solution! God bless Randy! LOL

So is the pitch of the bull nose able to be different than the pitch of the other sides of that roof? In my case the roof on the right is a different pitch than the roof on the left, so the bull nose pitch would need to match the roof on the right, not the roof that it is part of. Cutting out the triangle and drawing a roof plane worked fine, by the way. I did have to generate an elevation to determine where to draw the triangle to make the pitch of that bull nose plane correct 

Right, it was the Bull Nose versus the Dutch Gable that threw me.

Yes, every edge of a roof can have an independent pitch. Right click near an edge and choose EDGE EDIT - Adjust pitch to suit.

You didn't have to draw an elevation to get the hole parameters. The roof overhang of the original roof gave you a triangle that you could mirror about the ridge to get the diamond to form the hole.

sorry for miss-naming the "bull nose"

i thought

"a picture was worth a thousand words"