Multi-pitch roof plane

Module(s): Structural Precast Elements

You can use the Multi-Pitch Roof Plane tool to create multi-pitch roof planes without entering custom planes.

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To create a multi-pitch roof plane

1. Click Multi-Pitch Roof Plane (How).
   

   Activate Multi-Pitch Roof Plane in one of the following ways

   • Menu bar: Create Precast Factories Structural Precast Units

   • Palette: Tools Create area in the following module(s):

   Structural Precast Units

2. Click Roof type to specify whether you want to define planes of a rectangular outline by entering parameters (= Rectangle). As an alternative you can define the outline of the roof, ridge and hip/valley lines by clicking points or lines. To do this, select General.
   • When you have selected Rectangle, enter parameters for the Length and Width of the roof outline and specify whether the Ridge is to be centered. If necessary, enter the offset of the ridge. In addition, decide whether the program is to create Hip/valley lines and specify the number of different regions and the offsets. If the Hip/valley lines option is not selected, the program will create a simple gable roof.
     

     No. of regions

     Enter the number of regions. You can specify different offsets for the hip lines and valley lines.

     Region no.

     Click and to select the region you want to define. Then enter the Number of offsets and define the Line spacing.

   • When have selected General, design the Roof outline, Ridge and the Hip/valley lines in the workspace. You can click Enter start of ... in the relevant line if you want to modify the geometry later.
3. Define the parameters in the Roof plane area.
   

   Roof slope on the left / right
   Slope on the left / right

   Slope of the roof in [degrees] or as a [%]. The corresponding value adjusts automatically.

   Elevation of lower plane

   Height of lower plane in unit of length set.

   Height of ridge

   Height of ridge in unit of length set.

   Delta height 1, 3, 5, ... / 2, 4, 6, ...

   Values used to raise or lower the hip/valley lines. The program provides separate settings for even and odd numbers of hip/valley lines.

4. Enter the angle of rotation in the dialog line and place the multi-pitch roof plane.
5. If necessary, change the parameters and press ESC to finish.
   

Notes:

• You can use Save as a favorite to save the settings and Load favorite to read the settings back into the palette, where you can modify them. Click Favorite QuickSelect to select from the five favorites you have used most recently.
  Click Options to modify the settings of the Configuration menu.
• To modify the multi-pitch roof plane, you can use the properties palette.