Creating a Dutch Gable, or Truncated Hip?

I have been on a Vectorworks chat list lately, and the users were asking about making a Dutch Gable. Vectorworks will make one easily if you start with a standard Vectorworks roof and edit the roof plane.

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• Move your cursor to the blue handle in the middle of the roof plane.
• Click once.

• This dialog box opens.
• Choose Dutch Hip.
• Fill in the settings.
• Click on the OK button.

This is the result.

• If this is not what you had in mind, go back to the blue handle in the middle of the roof plane.
• Click once.

• Change the roof back to an eave.
• Change the bearing height.

This is the result, a truncated or half-hip roof.
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