Full disclosure, this is far less a post of me looking for instruction, but rather me venting about known issues caused by some of the changes to 2026.
SoftPlan...PLEASE GIVE US BACK 2024's ROOFS!! At least until some of these ongoing issues get fixed. Any time I'm working on a complicated roof (And let me tell you...this one's a doozy), I constantly find myself having to fight tooth and nail to get the program to behave itself, using the correct reference points to draw the appropriate roof. The update that caused roof holes that have been drawn on roof edges to generate new roof edges MIGHT have solved one problem, but it caused a whole bunch of new ones that regularly cause roofs to "break."
As I mentioned, the roof I'm working on is incredibly complicated because we're doing what I believe is the 4th remodel/addition to this very old house and I'm building three new roofs, each of which interact with at least one other roof in some way, shape, or form. In case you're curious, this is the same project referenced in my post trying to determine why fascia would randomly disappear from a roof edge.
In order to get my model looking correct, I need to cut holes in roofs. I don't know if there's been an update that changed the behavior of roof holes, but it seems with this job, that even if I draw the hole away from the edge, then adjust it to match the edge, SP is generating new roof edges. When the roof is the very last one you draw, things tend to behave until the first thing happens which causes SP to automatically run a cleanup function, then all bets are off. Furthermore, if you need to draw a second roof that interacts with that roof, good luck! Finally get your roof looking and behaving correctly? Cool - there's a nonzero chance that the next automated cleanup will break the roof. Also, unchecking the "Clean up" box forces a cleanup.
Dear SoftPlan, I get that the node-based reference point system has a lot of benefits, but PLEASE give us the ability to override or disable it to create common sense geometry. A tool that serves the function of "Create Points On An Existing Face" would work wonders when it comes to quickly creating renderings for clients.
I genuinely am grateful for the host of things that SoftPlan does intuitively and effectively, but roofs are a bus, and its name is Struggle.
