working with complex roofs

[Andrew Mac]

I am working on a residential house with a somewhat complex roof. I have completed the main part of the roof using the creat roof from polygon tool- Simple enough. I am trying to add a new roof over a porch which will be supoorted by columns (just 1 of many other roof systems to be added)- It will a gable end and I was wandering if I need to cut part of the main roof inorder for this new roof to fit snug- I tried drawing as one roof but kept getting an error indicating the roof was too complex. ANy thoughts on what the best approach is to creating roofs like this

Edited July 13, 2007 by amacbabe

[Dieter @ DWorks]

you can use roof faces, they are much easier when creating complex foofs

[D Wood]

It is surprising you got the 'complex' message, is the porch roof at other than 90??

In addition to going straight to Roof Face as DWorks says, you can first treat the porch roof as a roof on its own - same parameters as the main, then gable both ends (untick gable walls in the OIP), and ungroup. You then have 2 roof faces which you can edit to meet the main roof. Other wings or extensions either hipped or gabled can be done the same way.

[panthony]

Amacbabe,

See the thread on complex roof structures at Complex Roof Structures

If you need adittional help I may be able to guide you in complex roofs.

pete

[Robert Anderson]

It would be helpful to us to send in a bugfile whenever you get a "roof too complex" message. Thanks!