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By Nancy Fulton
In this tutorial you'll master the skills required to create and modify a wide variety
of sloped roofs using Autodesk Architectural Desktop software. This is valuable
knowledge indeed, since most residential and many commercial structures require
sloped roofs.
You'll learn how to:
Specify roof parameters including overhang distance and roof slope.
Create a sloped roof.
Modify roof faces.
The source files required for this project are located in the downloadable ZIP file.
To transfer these files onto your local hard drive, click the link.
7. From the Design Roofs menu, choose Edit Roof Edges/Faces. 8. Select the front
edge and the side edge of the roof plate over the porch.
9. Press ENTER to indicate that you don't want to select any more objects.
10. In the Roof Faces (by Edge) area, replace the two Slope values in the table
with 30.
11. Change the Height value associated with the Face 1 entry, defined when you
selected the edges in Step 8, to -10".
12. Choose OK to exit this dialog box. Note the change to the porch overhang.
You will find our version of the file to this point in the 9905b.dwg file located in
the downloadable ZIP file.
Conclusion
Now that you're familiar with the tools required to create a sloped roof for a house,
I encourage you to experiment with them. Soon enough you will be creating
sloped roofs in your own drawings.