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MikeN

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I've just been trying out the Massing Model tool in v10 and have found that the roof styles don't seem to be working. Is this a bug? Am I supposed to designate which styles to choose from? If so, how do I create the styles? The manual mentions nothing. Any help would be beneficial.

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The Massing Model tool does just what it claims: it creates a massing model. It creates a hip roof when the sloped roof option is chosen because a hip roof is the most "generic" style of sloped roof. It is aimed at people creating generic surrounding settings for urban or campus style designs, etc. and not as a detailed building modeler.

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It creates a hip roof when the sloped roof option is chosen because a hip roof is the most "generic" style of sloped roof.

A hip roof is not the most generic roof style in New England, especially in an urban residential setting like Boston. This is disappointing. A "generic" model builder should at least have the ability to build a shed or a gabled roof.

It's kinda hard to get a model taken seriously if the roof is wrong.

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Andrew

If you go into a 3D view and Convert to Group the Quick Building object it will revert to a series of extrudes for the building exterior walls and a Roof Object. The required ends of the Roof Object can then be converted to gables.

Note: If you Convert to Group in Top / Plan View you will not get the 3D walls. Instead you will get a dotted 2D rectangle with the building area etc.

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If you go into a 3D view and Convert to Group the Quick Building object it will revert to a series of extrudes for the building exterior walls and a Roof Object. The required ends of the Roof Object can then be converted to gables.

This is an awsome tip! But how do you connect the roof back to the building, so the object becomes a massing model again? Plain grouping is no good since you can't change attiributes afterwards, send them to surface etc.

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Another way to get a roof form other than hipped would be to have a minimal flat roof on the massing model (or make it an invisible class), and then to model a separate roof object on top of it with the form that you want. You could either model the connecting walls separately or use the gable walls option on the Roof Object.

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