Possibly against my better judgment, I'm trying to learn how to use the Roof Object and Roof Styles. It's been an uphill battle... like trying to climb up a 16:12 roof without a rope...
So I started from scratch in a blank file with four un-styled walls and an un-styled Roof. Finally, I was able to (mostly) make sense out of things. Then I proceeded with a Roof using (a Vectorworks default) Roof Style, and things went downhill from there (yeah, I fell off the roof), as I could not for the life of me control the fascia or soffit. Ultimately I concluded that if I consider the Bearing Height and the Bearing Inset to be entirely meaningless, and set the Inset to 0" and manually position the roof at the desired height, I could get the Roof and its fascia to work. The soffit seems to be an entirely lost cause. See attached file for the progression of my attempts to get the Roof to work. What am I missing?!? @Christiaan and @Gadzooks, you guys seem like the rocket scientists of Roofs... maybe you have some answers? Thanks!! -Will
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Possibly against my better judgment, I'm trying to learn how to use the Roof Object and Roof Styles. It's been an uphill battle... like trying to climb up a 16:12 roof without a rope...
So I started from scratch in a blank file with four un-styled walls and an un-styled Roof. Finally, I was able to (mostly) make sense out of things. Then I proceeded with a Roof using (a Vectorworks default) Roof Style, and things went downhill from there (yeah, I fell off the roof), as I could not for the life of me control the fascia or soffit. Ultimately I concluded that if I consider the Bearing Height and the Bearing Inset to be entirely meaningless, and set the Inset to 0" and manually position the roof at the desired height, I could get the Roof and its fascia to work. The soffit seems to be an entirely lost cause. See attached file for the progression of my attempts to get the Roof to work. What am I missing?!? @Christiaan and @Gadzooks, you guys seem like the rocket scientists of Roofs... maybe you have some answers? Thanks!! -Will
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