j.christ Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 What am I doing wrong? 'Insert Soffit' does not seem to display properly. See image. Anyone else with the same? Quote Link to comment
Guest Wes Gardner Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Hi j.christ, I thought this was something specifically fixed in SP3 - on my Mac it seems to work just fine - I'll have someone on a PC run it and see what's up. I assume you are using the AEC > Create Roof scenario? Wes Quote Link to comment
Guest Wes Gardner Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Hi j.christ, Just an update - I got one of our tech folks to try it on their Vista machine and they got "good" results. Can you post up a "test" file so we can see what's up? Wes Quote Link to comment
j.christ Posted April 7, 2009 Author Share Posted April 7, 2009 (edited) Test file attached. Added. Yes, using >AEC>'Create roof...' tool. It's what I consider a simple roof shape. The soffit seems to display fine until the last hip is altered to a gable. I have checked the polygon making sure it is closed prior to the using the AEC>Create roof tool. I have altered the direction of altering the hips to gables as well to see if that does anything, but no change. Edited April 7, 2009 by j.christ Quote Link to comment
Guest Wes Gardner Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 I'll pass this on to our tech/bug submit team to see why/what the issue is. Thank you for the "heads up" Wes Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 j.christ the simple solution to your problem in the interim might be to model the soffits yourself. You could also ungroup a duplicate of the roof object and extract the horizontal soffit surfaces and vertical ends for re-use. Replace the wrong soffit ends with correct ones. Quote Link to comment
j.christ Posted April 7, 2009 Author Share Posted April 7, 2009 Doing work around already but thanks for the advise anyways. Work around used is extrude along path and capped ends. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 The ungroup a duplicate seemed like it would be quicker, particularly if you need to make changes: - Copy the roof object. - open a new file and Paste in Place. - Ungroup the roof object. - Select and Copy the soffit 3D polygons you need. - Return to the original drawing. - Delete the soffit 3D polygons you want to replace. - Paste in Place the new soffit 3D polygons. It woud definetely be quicker when you have variable eaves overhangs. Quote Link to comment
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