Getting gables correct

[peterbennett]

I followed Doug's advice and found this post and tried Allan's method.
I inserted two new locations based upon the second floor, made the wall heights on each 1mm, and for the cut roof picked the points similar to allan's bld file. But the second roof has gone crazy putting slopes all over the place. Do I have to draw  suitably shaped walls on the new locations and then make them invisible ?

As you can see the walls are now jutting up through the roofs even more so!!

Can anybody tell me what is going wrong?

Thanks

Peter

[Allan Chesney]

Hi Peter,

The problem with the odd angles in the roof is that probably you have not set the angled edges to Gable. When you draw a wall 'By Picking Points' it does not have to have a wall to sit on, so no need for invisible or even mini walls.  The mini walls are only needed to create rooms or gable end fills withn the roof area, so they will accept doors etc.

Walls automatically extend to the roof by default. If there is no roof on that location, then they will extend to the wall height specified for that Location.  This appears to be what is happening here.  Either that or you have the second locations 'floor level' at the same height as the wall height of the first and have not allowed for the thickness of the first location's floor, as the extension appears to be about the standard 305mm floor thickness.

I will try that again(!): Ground floor floor thickness is 300mm, wall is 2400, so second floor floor surface is 2700 above the terrain (0). If you have the roof on another location but did not allow for the floor thickness also, it would be 300mm lower.

If the roof is at the level you want it, then just reduce the height of the walls that stick through.
If that does not solve the problem them post or email the BLD file as it is much easier to diagnose that way.

Allan

[peterbennett]

Allan,

I have just posted as crasher.bld in the other thread (hopefully), but I'll put it here as well.


Thanks,

Peter