Dealing With a Challenging Roof – The standard Vectorworks roof is not able to create every roof construction that you would like. But it is a good idea to keep the roof object going as long as possible. One of the techniques that I use is to break the roof…
Reshaping a Roof – When your roof creation starts out with the walls, you can often end up with a roof plan outline that you did not want. Sometimes you do not want the roof to exactly follow the walls. In this case use the Reshape tool to change the…
Cutout in a Standard Roof – If you don’t want to go to the trouble of creating a 3D symbol for the skylight, you can punch a simple hole in the roof face. Vectorworks calls these holes ‘cutouts’.
Offset Gable – This is where you change the gable so that it covers the whole end of the project.
Beginner Tip. You can use this tool to create a polygon by defining the centreline.
Split Gable Roof – As we have seen, once a roof is created you can edit parameters of the roof, roof plane by roof plane if you want, or the entire roof. We are going to create a split gable roof using the standard roof command, and some simple editing.
Editing a Roof – Once the roof is created you can go to the roof layer and you can edit parameters of the roof, plane by plane if you want, or the entire roof.
Creating a Roof – This is an introduction to making a simple roof.
Beginner Tip – This mode allows you to change the shape of a polygon/polyline by adding additional vertices. You can choose the type of vertex (corner/bezier/cubic spline/arc) that you are adding.
Beginner Tip – The second mode on the Tool bar allows you to move an edge. This is an easy way to move the edges and it will not affect the angle of the adjoining sides.