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Modeling roofs

Modeling roofs - Archicad Tutorial

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Modeling roofs

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- [Voiceover] Now it's time to start adding some roof panels to this house. Now I'm gonna go here to the 3D on the F3 and I believe the original design is not meant to have roofs on this house, I think the idea was to have a green roof or a gravel roof, but for this course we're gonna add some roof so we know how to do it. Let's go back to the floor plan and go straight to the roof level. To add a roof we go to the roof tool here. I'm gonna click on it and use the shortcut Command + t or Control + t if you're on a PC, and here on the roof settings the first thing on the geometry and positioning that we have to choose is the height of the roof reference line. You're gonna see as we add a roof that the roof has a reference line and here we can choose the right height of it. I'm gonna make it zero for now. Next we can choose the structure of the roof, if we want a generic structure or a composite structure. We don't wanna do composite right now, so let's change it to generic, and once…

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