roof placement - 1st floor interecting the 2nd floor

[Jbscalia]

I have a portion on the house i'm designing where a roof over the first floor has it's southern boundary limited by where the 2nd floor overlaps it. My problem with this, and I'm sure it's simple, is that VW2022 keeps saying it can't create the roof. What I've tried is to pick the other 3 walls on the first floor, then create roof, and additionally pick those same 3 walls as well as the wall bounding it on the southern edge from the 2nd floor. Neither seems to work, though, and I'm a bit lost trying to put the roof in. Can anyone suggest what I need to do?

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Jay

[Tom W.]

A Roof can be created from a Polygon - it doesn't have to be created from Walls. And then you can manually bind it to selected Walls afterwards.

[Jbscalia]

Thanks, Tom. I used the polygon to draw the outline for the roof.  I converted both the southern and northern edges to gables, but if I attempt to resize the length as it intrudes into the 2nd floor, it only drags the entire roof not resize it, which is not what I want.

[Tom W.]

You should definitely be able to resize the Roof using the Reshape Tool...?

[Jbscalia]

I must be dense or something. I can't seem to find a command beginning with the word Reshape.

[Tom W.]

Not a command, a tool in the Basic Tool Set:

You can do a lot with Roofs + the Reshape Tool so worth playing around with the different modes for example Add Vertex

[Jbscalia]

It took some effort, but I was finally able to get the roof properly placed with its correct size.