There are many times where the standard roof needs to be edited. For example, you need to create a hole for the flue, or another roof butts into a roof. When you understand the concept, it is very easy to cut a hole in a Vectorworks roof or roof face.
Roof Drawings. It is not possible to use section viewports to create the viewport of each of the roof planes. What you require is an angle where you look square onto the roof plane. To achieve this you have to set the applicable working planes correctly.
Modeling the Roof. You can use the outline of the walls to create the roof, but you cannot use the walls themselves to create the roof because you changed the joining of the walls.
Roof Drawings. Setting up the roof drawings is similar to the floor plans. Create the viewports for the existing and proposed. Change the class overrides so the drawings are easier to read.
Roofing. There isn’t anything special to do with roofing, but you must remember to use a class for the existing roof, a class for the proposed roof, and a class for the demolished roof.
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.
Stacked layers and Unified View allow you see all your layers together, so when you change views, all the layers change. But there are some things to watch for, like the 2D stuff.
This Movie is from my February 2007 short sharp training (monthly). The movie uses Vectorworks 12.5 to show you how to draw simple roofs and how to use the roof framer. If you are using Vectorworks 10, 11 or 12, you should find this useful. if you are using one…
I often find that the standard Vectorworks roof will not make the roof I want.
A simple guide to creating roof framing.