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Automatic Roofs

roof to regenerate to reflect these changes.
See “Roof Panel” on page 781.

Changes made to floor heights,or ceiling
heights, or floor or ceiling platform
thicknesses will also cause the roof to be
automatically rebuilt.
You can also rebuild the roof at any time to
reflect the current state of the model by
opening the Build Roof dialog, checking
Build Roof Planes, and clicking OK.
Manually dawn roof planes are specified as
such in the Roof Plane Specification dialog.
• Spanning the concave curved wall with a
straight Baseline and produce a roof plane If a roof plane was automatically generated,
for it from that. it will instead have a Mark as Edited
checkbox. See “Roof Plane Specification
Dialog” on page 798.

When the roof is rebuilt using Auto Rebuild
Roof or Build Roof Planes in the Build
Roof dialog, all roof planes in the plan, both
automatically generated and manually
drawn, are deleted and replaced.
• To preserve any manually drawn roof
planes, check Retain Manually Drawn
Roof Planes on the BUILD panel of the
Build Roof dialog before the roof is
rebuilt.
• To preserve any automatically generated
roof planes that you have edited, check
Rebuilding Roofs Retain Edited Roof Planes on the BUILD
panel of the Build Roof dialog before the
By default, when changes are made to the
model, the roof does not update to reflect roof is rebuilt.
these changes. This is the case even if the
roof was automatically built. Note: Under some conditions, when the roof
is rebuilt new roof planes may be generated
When Auto Rebuild Roofs is checked in the in the same location as retained manually
Build Roofs dialog, on the other hand, any drawn or automatic roof planes.
changes made to the position of an exterior
wall or to its roof directives will prompt the Roof planes cannot be edited or manually
drawn when Auto Rebuild Roofs is turned

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