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randolph cohn

Posted 07 November 2017 - 02:34 PM

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.


Keith Almond

Posted 07 November 2017 - 01:52 PM

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

Posted 07 November 2017 - 01:10 PM

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, 


randolph cohn

Posted 07 November 2017 - 12:54 PM

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

 

gar house 2 pitches.JPG

 

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

 

 

 

 


Chris Proost

Posted 06 November 2017 - 12:31 PM

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


Keith Almond

Posted 06 November 2017 - 08:25 AM

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.

 

2017.11.06_09h24m44s_001.png


Posted 06 November 2017 - 08:04 AM

I am using SoftPlan 2014.  My garage roof is taller than the main house roof pitch.  How do I make the main house roof invert the peak of the taller garage roof?  The main house is 6:12, the garage roof is 8:12?  Thank you.

 


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