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Chief Architect X10 Reference Manual

automatic roof generation, preventing their may also be necessary. See “Using Both
roofs from influencing one another. Techniques” on page 774.

Bear in mind that the use of Roof Groups Roof Groups are assigned using numbers.
typically involves using a combination of The Default Roof Group is always 0, and you
both automatic roof generation and manual can assign rooms to other roof groups in the
roof editing, and that changes to Attic walls Room Specification dialog. See “General
Panel” on page 435.
Curved Walls and Roofs

Automatically generated roof planes are lower the number, the more roof sections are
placed over curved walls at specified created over the curved wall.
increments. In the Build Roof dialog, you The following illustrations show a roof
can specify the degree increments for the created at two different curved increments:
roof over curved walls, from 6° to 90°. The
30° and 15°.

Concave Curved Walls and Roofs
Regular roof plane sections can also generate If the baselines are shorter, the automatically
over concave curved walls. For roof sections generated roofs are simplified by either:
to generate over a concave curved wall, the • Ignoring the curved wall, as if the walls
sections’ baselines must be longer than the on either side extended to their meeting
Minimum Alcove Size value on the BUILD point.
panel of the Build Roof dialog.

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