Roofs

Your home is more than just a roof over your head. Its probably the biggest single investment you'll make in your lifetime. And your roof in undoubtedly the most important part of your home....

By default every Roof and Shell has its own Trimming Body. When any connection is made between any two Roof or Shell, no matter what part remains, their trimming bodies are merged and will act as one...

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When performing the Trim to Roof or Shell command, a so-called Trimming Body is used. The View… On-Screen View Options… Trimming Bodies menu command toggles the display of Trimming Bodies. When...

One option available for the Trimming Body of Shells is the Editable Trimming Body option. If we switch to this option in the Shell Settings Dialog, then the Trimming body will not be a vertical...

ArchiCAD provides complex trimming techniques to help the editing of Roofs and Shells. When we have a series of elements that we want to Trim to the Roofs and Shells above them, we can select all...

Let’s see how we can create a gable for the roof. Let’s first select the roof in the 3D window. Let’s click the pivot line to bring up the Pet Palette, and activate the “Customize Roof Plane” option....

ArchiCAD provides selective trimming techniques to help the editing of Roofs and Shells. When we have a trimming situation where the default method would not give us our desired result, we can have...

In this Movie we will show how we can create pitched roofs for various geometry bases. First we create a Gable Roof. Let’s activate the roof tool. Let’s select the “Multi plane” geometry method and...

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