Creating a Roof

With the roof command, the roof is created by drawing roof boundaries (an enclosed area) in the drawing area.

Location of Roof Command

In the Architectural Program

You can access it under the ribbon menu Home tab Roof title.

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In Structural Program

You can access it under the ribbon menu Objects tab Roof title.

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Roof Toolbar

Usage Steps

• Click the Roof icon in the ribbon menu .

• Click the left mouse button in the drawing area to create a closed polygon to define the roof boundaries.

• While creating the polygon, you can enter different roof surface slopes for the relevant roof surface from the Roof Slope information box in the roof toolbar . Slopes are entered in percent.

• When the polygon is closed, a roof will be created according to the slopes entered.