How do I change the shape of a roof?

[student22]

How do I change the shape of a roof to make it one sided or two?

Just can't figure out how to do this besides messing with the pitch. Do I have to raise 2 of my walls to make a roof only have two slanted sides?

[Chad McNeely]

Click a side's reshape handle, choose gable from list.

For single-sided/simple shed roof, use a roof face.

[student22]

Thanks for the help.

Got the gable to work but still can't get the Roof Face to even be an option for the single-sided/simple shed roof

any suggestions

thanks

[billtheia]

For a shed roof, you can use a Roof Object. Select the exterior walls, polygon, or lines that represent the perimeter of the building that you'd like a roof on. Select Create Roof from the AEC menu. Set your thickness, slope, overhang, etc. and click OK. Now you'll have a hip roof and you'll see handles in the middle of each roof edge. You can click on each of the handles to change from eave to gable. The trick is to change them in the right order. First do left and right sides. Now you'll have a gable roof. Then click the handle on the top edge and change it to gable (not exactly intuitive, I know.) Tada! Shed roof.

Your other alternative, as Chad suggested, is to use a roof face. For this method, I draw a polygon with the shape of the roof I want (including overhangs.) Then I select Roof Face from the AEC menu and set my roof thickness, slope, etc. and click OK. Then I'm asked to define the roof axis. I usually set the axis at the back edge of the stud on the exterior wall - this is how it would be built (think birdsmouth.) Simply draw a line along the "hinge point" that you want for the roof and boom, shed roof.

Hope that helps.

Good luck.

[caw]

On 5/11/2009 at 1:42 PM, billtheia said:

For a shed roof, you can use a Roof Object. Select the exterior walls, polygon, or lines that represent the perimeter of the building that you'd like a roof on. Select Create Roof from the AEC menu. Set your thickness, slope, overhang, etc. and click OK. Now you'll have a hip roof and you'll see handles in the middle of each roof edge. You can click on each of the handles to change from eave to gable. The trick is to change them in the right order. First do left and right sides. Now you'll have a gable roof. Then click the handle on the top edge and change it to gable (not exactly intuitive, I know.) Tada! Shed roof.

Your other alternative, as Chad suggested, is to use a roof face. For this method, I draw a polygon with the shape of the roof I want (including overhangs.) Then I select Roof Face from the AEC menu and set my roof thickness, slope, etc. and click OK. Then I'm asked to define the roof axis. I usually set the axis at the back edge of the stud on the exterior wall - this is how it would be built (think birdsmouth.) Simply draw a line along the "hinge point" that you want for the roof and boom, shed roof.

Hope that helps.

Good luck.

 

[caw]

Billtheia -- this is my first post so hopefully I am doing it correctly -- A HUGE thanks as a newbie -- I have spent hours trying to find out how to do this and your post was perfect and the easiest to follow. Thank you!

[zoomer]

And not to forget the new Slab functions with slopes or drainage option,

since VW 2017,

To finally use Slabs as flat or shed roofs.