denham Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Never use the sketchup roof tool. But in REVIT it is really easy as well. You just trace your roof plan, set the pitch for each section, & it will generate the roof. I had a really complex (ugly McMansion) pitch roof, with many angles that REVIT generated very quickly & accurately. You can then export as a .dwg & import into VIZ/MAX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malevy Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 I found that autocad architecture makes roofs really fast and pretty darn accurate.. i think its good enough for me for now. I am not looking for perfection just something i can practice modeling with. Havent tried revit. I was thinking of downloading the demo if they have it just to see what its all about. As soon as i recover from my back surgery I am going to have to get a job using autocad while i am in school. At least it will be more interesting then what i have been doing for the last 20 years which is fixing computers - look at the payoff i destroyed my back lifting and moving hundreds of computers and now the only thing i can lift is a pencil. Never use the sketchup roof tool. But in REVIT it is really easy as well. You just trace your roof plan, set the pitch for each section, & it will generate the roof. I had a really complex (ugly McMansion) pitch roof, with many angles that REVIT generated very quickly & accurately. You can then export as a .dwg & import into VIZ/MAX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFK_Matrix Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Well as someone has already said I model roofs using the grid helper tool. I usually in AutoCAD get all the elevations setup onto a floor plan in 3d. Then I just bring this into MAX setup the grid tool to work on the gable end of the roof and just use the line tool to trace both the fascia and roof tiles then just extrude it. If I want to model the flat tiles I do this using the spline and poly tools. You can also align a view to any active grid helper so you can rotate the grid to any angle etc and view this in plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IHAB Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 in archicad also you can export a .3ds roof, I'm to take a course in revit within the next few days, hope it'll be useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nelpiper Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 If you use vray, depending on the complexity of the roof you wanna build, you can get a good look by using a nice texture as a map for a vraydisplacement modifier. I've done this before (it wouldn't work for close ups though) and it works cool for general views. Hope it helps. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Oliver Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 whenever i use displacement for roof shingles, where the roof texture stops at the fascia, the geometry pops apart because there is no displacement on the fascia material how do you handle that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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