Chris Clymer Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 Newbie here! I'm using a 2D polygon to draw a "Roof Face" to show a shed roof on a project. The lowest section of the roof is getting clipped horizontally (see attached pic), and I cannot figure out why. I've adjusted component settings as well settings in Object Info pallet, but nothing about the horizontal cut changes. I've delete the roof and tried again, but get same result. I am using Stories (trying to anyway) and none of the bound settings seem like they should be clipping the roof. I'm hoping there's a setting somewhere that I've overlooked as I cannot figure out any other way to draw a shed roof (getting complexity warnings from the "Crete Roof". Thank you in advance!! Chris Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 Look in the OIP. There is a pull down for "Eave Cut". Looks like yours is set to horizontal. Change it to vertical. Quote Link to comment
Chris Clymer Posted October 11, 2022 Author Share Posted October 11, 2022 michaelk, That was it! I was certain I had already tried that. A follow up question... I noticed that changing the eave cut only changes the eaves on the low side. I assume this is because the Roof Face assumes the high side is a "peak" and not an eave? A few years ago I designed a building with a shed roof that had the upper roof taper in. Similarly, I have also had gable roofs where the rakes taper in as well. How would one accomplish this? Thanks again! Chris Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 You are correct. The roof face tool assumes the low side is always an eave. The high side is always vertical because it assumes that it's a ridge. If it's a break in the pitch you can use two separate roof faces. If the roof pitch has a curve you're out of luck. I had a complicated Gambrel roof a couple years ago where I had to model the whole thing. Have you experimented with the join tool? There is a mode to join roof faces that can make finding the hips on irregular roof faces easier. If that doesn't work I usually make the faces too big then select all the roof faces and Modify>Convert>Convert Copy to Lines. That will lay a group of lines on top of your roof faces showing where all the hips go. Quote Link to comment
Chris Clymer Posted October 13, 2022 Author Share Posted October 13, 2022 Thanks for the advice michaelk and very much appreciate the help! The roof join tool is likely what I need next... Chris Quote Link to comment
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