Square gable

Hey Phil,

Select the gable roof sides>then support & details> then change the gable type from plain to squared.

Then select the hip roof sides and then you just have to adjust the Fascia distances to get your desired top of wall match.

Pics attached below.

Conrad

Good Morning Phil,

Try this, might not be the best way but it works you have to modify the member to match your pitch of the roof  (smaller or larger).

This is what i always do if i can’t find an automatic way i use a member. Once it’s there and in the correct spot you can make it invisible in 2d then it won’t show up on your plan. (tip do one and mirror it to the opposite side then mirror those two to the other side.)

Edit: (just wanted to add that you can not make a member disappear in 2 d unless you turn it off in the view filter i had been thinking there’s an option in the properties to turn it off so only the 3 d model shows but i was wrong)  So if you use this option you’d just have to delete it off working drawing then.

Hip roof soffit set to plumb

Gable roof soffit set to plain

The triangle member i used to create the birdbox. Select it> do a right click.>add group> name it birdbox.

And then all you have to do is insert it every time you want to use it. Just elevate a 1/16″ higher than the bottom of fascia.

Conrad

• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by conwe.

That’ll only work on a fairly flat roof. Because if you make the ceiling material thick to match a steeper pitch roof it’ll stick out the top.

SDS wrote:

You can not do what you want to do solely through the roof variables…you’ve got to ‘fake it’ with some other element.

Yup…glad to hear you got it worked out.