Create Roof Planes (Intermediate)

Video Transcript:

  In this video we are going to be covering roof plane input.

This structure has both 6/12 and 8/12 roof slopes. The roof slope on the garage and front porch will be 8/12. And the remainder of the planes will be 6/12.

The 6/12 planes will have a standard heel height. And for the 8/12 planes, we will adjust the heel height to match the fascia height.

So let's add some roof planes!

 Right click and select roof plane. For these planes, we will set the slope to be 6/12.  Here, we can see the Heel Method is set to butt cut with a value of four sixteenths or a quarter of an inch.  Let's change the heel method over to heel height. Here we can see the value is set to  four and three sixteenths. This is a standard heel height calculated using the 6/12 slope, the quarter of an inch butt cut, 3 and a half inch Top Chord width. We will set the overhang to be 1 foot.

Pan to the back of the house and we will start with the rear porch. While pressing the alt key, click on the left bearing of the porch to add the first plane. Keeping the alt key pressed streamlines input, allowing you to add additional roof planes in a continuous fashion. Continue with the plane across the back. And select the last one on the right side of the rear porch.

Continue adding a roof plane for the rear wall of the house that is adjacent to the rear porch using Alt Click.

Pan over to the right side of the house where we've got another 6/12 plane to add for the fireplace. Alt Click on the outside edge for the fireplace wall.

Next, move down to add a plane to the front wall Alt click to place this plane. And finally, pan back along the left, rear of the house to add a plane for the back edge of the house.

Next, we're gonna add the remaining 8/12 roof planes. You should still be in plane input mode so simply change the pitch to be 8/12 and verify overhang is 1 foot. The heel height value is not important for the 8/12 planes because we will adjust these later using the Adjust fascia Height command.

Holding down the alt key  we will add the Planes in a continuous fashion.

Let's start with the right side of the front porch. Then alt click to add the left side.

Move over to the garage and here we will alt click to add the right side plane first, then move to the front edge. and alt click. And to wrap up this area we will click to add the left side. There you have it. We can either click cancel here or press the escape key.

Let's take a quick look at the roof planes in 3D. As you can see spinning the model, everything looks good here.

That wraps up this video on adding roof planes. We hope this video has provided you with a better understanding of roof settings and the process of adding roof planes.

Thanks for watching.