Roof Surface

Task area Roof

You can use this tool to create a roof surface by entering any outline.

To define roof surfaces

1. Click Roof Surface (How).
   

   Activate Roof Surface in one of the following ways

   • Actionbar:Role Architecture Task Elements Task area Roof

   • Menu bar: Create Architecture General: Roofs, Planes, Sections

   • Palette: Tools Create area in the following modules:

   General: Roofs, Planes, Sections

2. Enter the outline of the roof surface as you would enter a polyline.
3. The Properties palette opens. Define the parameters of the roof surface in the Format, Attributes, and Height settings areas.
4. You can define separate settings for each edge or select several edges to assign them the same properties.
   Select one or more edges of the roof surface.
5. Define parameters for these edges in the Edge settings area of the Properties palette.
6. When you select inclination, pitch for the type in the Edge settings area, you can define the slope or angle and enter a vertical offset of the edges from the bottom level of the outline of the roof surface.
7. Define all edges of the roof surface one after the other.
8. Select Esc twice to finish.

   Note: You can find the Save as a favorite tool at the bottom of the Properties palette. You can use this tool to save the parameters of the current roof surface as a favorite, which includes the settings in the Format, Attributes, and Height settings areas. You can use Load favorite to retrieve these parameters and use them for creating a new roof surface.

Note: Whether roof surfaces are visible in viewports of the animation view type depends on the settings for planes in the Animation area on the Desktop environment page in the Options. Go to the General area and choose to Display planes by selecting the Roof planes, roof surfaces, custom planes option.

Note: Click a roof surface to modify it. This selects the whole roof surface and you can make changes in the Format, Attributes, and Height settings areas of the Properties palette. To change the parameters of individual edges, select the required edge by clicking it while selecting the Spacebar (see dialog line). Now you can also modify the parameters in the Edge settings area of the Properties palette.