Complex Roof

[ZFact]

Hi All;

Can anyone help me with the attached elevation. I am

having some difficulty modelling this roof. It has a

sloping eaves and sloping ridge. Both sloping in

opposite directions. Nightmare or what?

 

Any suggestions welcome.

[AJLynn]

You're a Cinema4D user, yes? No problem - make three edges with linear splines and loft them with linear interpolation, then get the lines using a texmap in Flat mode. Very quick-and-dirty example attached.

[SunGlare]

It looks like some BMI aplication output. If you can ask them for model, or source file. At least architect should know whats going on. Dont assume anythig.

 

From my experience surfaces that opposite edges are not pararell in space are total no-go for cheap architecture like multifamily housing. Think about construction cost.

 

So I would revise the plans with architects, if thats the case, to make surethis is what theay want.

 

Maybe other elevations will solve the mystery of this roof, I'm 95 % that the roof slope is flat(its not nonuniform surface), but only roof eaves are cuted tricky.

[Brian Smith]

This is not difficult to create in 3D at all. Simply create closed plines in CAD, import the linework, use EditSpline to attach all the splines, go to vertex subobject mode and position the vertices as necessary, and collapse to an editable mesh. You can extrude the edges or use a loft to create the fascia.

[ZFact]

Anyone know how this would be achieved in vectorworks

or autocad

[3D_IC]

you can create the roof as a surface