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How to Create a Flat Top Roof

This article describes how to create sloping structures in ArchiCAD, e.g. what you would find in flat top roofs. The Slab Tool can not have a slope. So here is how you do it: Consider the following flat roof: Its Section looks like this: Sloping "slab"…

Editing Roofs

The following sections describe specific roof-related editing techniques. Graphical Editing of Roof Geometry  Modify the Roof Pitch Add ...

Crop Zone to Another Element

Zone spaces can be cropped to single-plane roofs, slabs and beams with the Design > Roof Extras > Crop Zone command. You can either select an element (Roof, Slab, Wall, Column, Beam, Curtain Wall or Library Part) and crop a Zone to it if the element protrudes into the Zone, or ...

Edit Eaves or Gable Overhang

The offset of the eaves (or the gable) from the pivot line can be set: •For the selected Roof as a whole in Roof Settings:   •For any single panel of a Multi-plane Roof: Click on the pivot line of the panel whose eaves overhang you wish to customize. Use the Customize Roof ...
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Add a Tower to the Roof

1.Begin with a regular hip roof. 2.In the Floor Plan or 3D, select the pivot line on the plane where you want to add the tower. 3.Chamfer the ...
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Add Roof Level

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 ...