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Using the shape editing tools to create a flat roof

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Using the shape editing tools to create a flat roof

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- [Voiceover] In this movie, I'm gonna look at creating flat roofs. Like the typical roof you'd have in a commercial building. Now, even a flat roof has some sort of slope to allow for positive drainage, and there's a couple ways that we can model that. We could certainly try and model it using the opposite of what I've got right here. This is a simple hip roof that if we were to edit the footprint is using slope-defining edges to create slope on the four edges. I'm gonna cancel out of there. Notice that Edit Footprint is the only button when I have that roof selected. This roof, right here, is also a footprint roof, and if I Edit Footprint, notice that none of the edges have Defines Slope. So I'm gonna cancel out of there. Notice that when none of the edges have Defines Slope, in other words, when the roof is totally flat in addition to Edit Footprint, you also see a Shape Editing panel here, with a variety of shape editing tools. It's the Shape Editing Tools that I want to talk…

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