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RoofMaker allows you to add GDL Object-based elements to specific parts of your design in order to enhance them in 3D views and ...

Trim Slanted Walls to Roof This article discusses the methods to trim a Slanted Wall to a Roof or Shell element. In ArchiCAD 15 there are now three designated roof elements: Multi-plane Roof - New in AC15 Single-plane Roof Shell Tool - New in AC15…

For a Multi-plane Roof, you can customize any of its planes so that its surfaces, eaves overhang, and pitch are different from the Roof Settings in effect for the roof as a whole. To open the Custom Plane Settings dialog box: 1.Select the Roof. 2.Click the pivot line of the roof plane ...

On the Floor Plan or 3D Window: 1.Select the Roof Tool.   2.In Roof Settings or the Info Box, adjust the main roof parameters (e.g. pitch, surfaces, eaves overhang). 3.Choose the Multi-plane method from the Info Box or from Roof Settings. 4.Choose one of the construction Methods ...

The Gambrel Roof is like the Mansard, except that it is gabled at both ends.   1.Begin with a Gable Roof.   2.Select the Roof. 3.In the Multi-plane Geometry panel of Roof Settings, click Add to add a new Roof level.   4.Adjust the pitches of each level. The first, ...

  1.Begin with a regular hip roof.   To see how to make a hip roof, see Hip Roof. 2.Make this roof into a two-level roof: open Roof Settings and go to the Multi-plane Geometry tab page. •Click Add to add a second level. •Enter the elevation at which the first ...

To adjust other elements to a single-plane roof, you can use the crop function, described in the following sections: Using the Crop to ...

Parameter Short Description Long Description Parameter Bottom Sur­face Name of Surface assigned to the Roof bottom. Assign surfaces in the Model panel of Roof Settings   Conditional Bottom ...

  1.Begin with a regular hip roof.   To see how to make a hip roof, see Hip Roof. 2.Make this roof into a two-level roof: open ...

You may wish to add additional levels to your Multi-plane Roof: for example, in creating a mansard roof, you want two roof levels, each with a different pitch. 1.Select the Roof. 2.In the Multi-plane Geometry panel of Roof Settings, or from the Info Box, click Add to add a new Roof ...