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Editing Roof and Ceiling Planes

the roof planes’ heights and their horizontal can be easily seen in a cross section view.
overhang distances. Two options in the Build The two roof planes must have parallel
Roof dialog allow you to control how the Baselines for this to work.
eaves of automatically generated roof planes
align. See “Roof Panel” on page 781. Raising/Lowering Roof Planes
• Same Roof Height at Exterior Walls Roof planes can be raised or lowered
maintains the default height of roof planes in the Roof Plane Specification
where they bear on exterior walls. The dialog. Begin by locking the Pitch, then
horizontal overhang distances of any non- change the value of the Baseline Height. See
default roof planes are adjusted so that “General Panel” on page 799.
they continue to join correctly with
default roof planes.
You can open the specification dialog
• Same Eave Heights maintains the default for all roof planes in an entire plan by
roof plane height at the eaves as well as selecting Build> Roof> Edit All Roof Planes.
any non-default horizontal overhang dis-
tances . All roof planes are raised or low- You can also raise or lower roof
ered so that they all have the same height planes in the Transform/Replicate
at the eaves as default roof planes. Object dialog. See “Transform/Replicate
Roof planes that do not join other roof planes Object Dialog” on page 269.
with different pitches at ridges or hips are In addition, when a new floor is added to a
referred to as Independent. plan, you can choose to move any roof
•When Same Roof Height at Exterior planes displaying on the top floor up one
Walls is checked, Independent roof floor. See “Adding Floors” on page 715.
planes are not affected and will maintain
any non-default overhang values. Change Roof Pitch or
• When both Same Roof Height at Exte- Height Dialog
rior Walls and Same Eave Heights are The Change Roof Pitch or Height dialog
checked, the overhangs of Independent displays when you attempt to snap the corner
roof planes will be adjusted to preserve or an edge of a roof plane near the edge of
their heights at both the exterior walls and another roof plane that does not match
the eaves. vertically. This dialog gives you the option to
move the roof plane vertically, or pivot it
Move to be Coplanar about a point and change the pitch.
The Move to be Coplanar edit button In this case, the current roof plane would
allows you to move the selected roof have to raise its pitch or height in order to
plane to be coplanar (in the same plane) with meet the second roof plane at the corner that
the next selected roof plane. You can use this you moved.
tool in both 2D and 3D views. The results

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