Eric9

Mike's previous posting was helpful. I had some success with his option "B", but when I started playing around with the framing tool, I ended up with a big mess. I am sure it was operator error, but I decided to revert to pencil and paper for the details after completing layout/visualization with VW. Good Luck!

I think I posted this to the wrong section earlier ... oops. So I'll try one more time. I am a new user and self trained so forgive me if these questions seem a bit out of touch... What is the best way to intersect roofs? I have come across this dilemma a couple times in my model. One, when adding a shed dormer adjacent to a gable dormer and two, when modeling the main roof, which is two perpendicular intersecting gable roofs. I'll try to explain the geometry of the second item above: The house perimeter shape is a rectangle. The gable ridge boards form a "T" when viewed from above. I have tried creating two separate rectangular polys as the foundation for the roof, which works, but the two roof shapes pass through each other. I also tried modeling a single block "T" shaped poly from which I created a roof. Then I modified "T" back into a rectangle that matched the walls. I can get the the top part of the "T" (the length of one of the gables) to be only a fraction of an inch longer than the width of the body of the "T" (the width of the other gable). However, when the roof perimeter truly matches the rectangular shape of the outside walls, Vectorworks gives me an error message that say something like "the roof was too complicated." What is the best strategy for making a dormer without a window? Is there a symbol without any geometry that can be used for this?

I am a new user and self trained so forgive me if these questions seem a bit out of touch... What is the best way to intersect roofs? I have come across this dilemma a couple times in my model. One, when adding a shed dormer adjacent to a gable dormer and two, when modeling the main roof, which is two perpendicular intersecting gable roofs. I'll try to explain the geometry of the second item above: The house perimeter shape is a rectangle. The gable ridge boards form a "T" when viewed from above. I have tried creating two separate rectangular polys as the foundation for the roof, which works, but the two roof shapes pass through each other. I also tried modeling a single block "T" shaped poly from which I created a roof. Then I modified "T" back into a rectangle that matched the walls. I can get the top part of the "T" (the length of one of the gables) to be only a fraction of an inch longer than the width of the body of the "T" (the width of the other gable). However, when the roof perimeter truly matches the rectangular shape of the outside walls, Vectorworks gives me an error message that say something like "the roof was too complicated." What is the best strategy for making a dormer without a window? Is there a symbol without any geometry that can be used for this?