ddcpe Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 I am modeling some roof framing. I have drawn some common rafters as extrudes. I have modelled my hip as an extrude. Now I want to rotate it up such that a line drawn on the center of the bottom face o the hip intersects a z-axis line projected up. I can get these lines drawn in 3-d and they look correct but I can't get the intersection to be snappable. How do I get this location in space. I need it because I have to rotate the hip up to meet this intersection so my model correctly indicates the bottom of the two intersecting planes intersect at the bottom longitudinal axis of the hip. plans hit. Quote Link to comment
BartHays Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 could you use a 3D locus? snap it to the bottom of a vertical line, move ( using the 3D Gizmo) and snap to the horizontal line Quote Link to comment
Jeff Prince Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 3 hours ago, ddcpe said: I am modeling some roof framing. I have drawn some common rafters as extrudes. I have modelled my hip as an extrude. Now I want to rotate it up such that a line drawn on the center of the bottom face o the hip intersects a z-axis line projected up. I can get these lines drawn in 3-d and they look correct but I can't get the intersection to be snappable. How do I get this location in space. I need it because I have to rotate the hip up to meet this intersection so my model correctly indicates the bottom of the two intersecting planes intersect at the bottom longitudinal axis of the hip. plans hit. I'm not clear on what this will look like, but have you considered placing a working plane using some of these known points to help you move along the plane and snap? Quote Link to comment
Gadzooks Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 5 hours ago, ddcpe said: I am modeling some roof framing. I must be missing something - so sorry if that is the case, but why aren’t you forming the hip and main roof slopes as you want them and then using the roof framing tool to provide the rafters and hips etc.. It’s an old tool but reasonably good at completing a sensible layout/visualisation of roof structure timber work. You don’t use a signature so not sure if you have roof framer available. Quote Link to comment
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