Home Designer Pro Roof Upper Pitch Options

To find the start of an upper pitch 1.

Home designer pro roof upper pitch options.

See to set a wall s roof directives on page 63. Baseline height does not include the roofing material or sheathing just the framing materials. A roof baseline is the uppermost portion of a roof plane directly above the main layer of a wall. See to set a wall s roof directives on page 3.

Use the upper pitch setting in the wall specification to set upper and lower pitch options to create a gambrel style roof. To learn more see finding the start of an upper pitch on page 72. Open the build roof dialog check build roof planes. Place a check next to the upper pitch and set this value.

Roof pitch defined and explained. Open the build roof dialog check build roof planes. The ratio can be indicated by a division slash separating the numbers such as 2 12 or 7 12. Specify the upper pitch as 6 in 12 and the start height as 156.

A roof section s baseline is the line in 3d space around which the roof section pivots as you alter the roof section s pitch. Or the colon can replace the slash as in 2 12 or 7 12. When you move walls the roof and foundation are also updated. Click ok to close the wall specification dialog.

Home designer pro 2014 user s guide finding the start of an upper pitch when creating a roof style with lower and upper pitches you can determine the exact starts at or in from baseline values that you need in an elevation view. Specify the upper pitch as 6 in 12 and the start height as 156. Advanced building tools for roofs foundations and framing make the design process easy. Check the box beside upper pitch.

Open the build roof dialog check build roof planes. Select the roof panel and put in the desired lower pitch for the roof plane that will build over this wall or railing. When you place a door or window it is inserted into the wall and the program automatically updates the framing. To learn more see finding the start of an upper pitch on page 10.

The roof that results will have the default pitch over all non gable walls except those for which you specified a different pitch. Click ok to close the wall specification dialog. Select build roof build roof from the menu and in the build roof dialog specify the desired default pitch for your roof check either build roof planes or auto rebuild roofs then click ok. Check the box beside upper pitch.

Generate the roof using only the first lower pitch. Specify the upper pitch as 6 in 12 and the start height as 156. Check the box beside upper pitch. To learn more see finding the start of an upper pitch on page 13.

Pitch is the term used to describe the angle slope or slant of your roof. Specify where to start the upper pitch by specifying at what height to transition from the lower to the upper pitch or the measurement in from baseline where the. As you draw walls the program creates a 3d model.