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Posted by CB55 at Jun 15, 2023, 10:34:14 AM

Skillion roof design
Hi everyone,
I live in the southwest of Australia, and Im working on a house design with 3 modules and I want to place a skillion roof on each module with a north facing aspect and join them together at south end. Im not sure this will actually be possible or not?

At the moment Im not sure how I will go about that using SH3D as Iam in the process of learning how to use this great software. Has anyone had experience in doing this?

Thanks for any advice

Best regards, CB55

Posted by hansmex at Jun 16, 2023, 5:26:13 AM

Re: Skillion roof design
Assumin a skillion roof is a sloping roof, you could use the RoofGenerator plugin.

You can find a tutorial here.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by joining the roofs.

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Posted by Keet at Jun 16, 2023, 7:58:48 AM

Re: Skillion roof design
It's unclear how and why you want to connect the three roofs. You can group three roofs so they appear as one in the Sweethome3D user interface. With a drawing or further explanation we might be able to help better.

(A skillion roof is a single plane sloped roof like a wall that you tilt and elevate. bdfd used them in this design in the Gallery forum.)
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Posted by CB55 at Jul 19, 2023, 4:02:30 AM

Re: Skillion roof design
Thanks very much to both hans and keet, with my apologies for the long delay in reply.

I have included my 3d model so far, without the roof; (Not sure if I have the right link after trying all their options on mediafire?)

Keet, your link to the skillion done by bdfd is pretty much what im looking for, but have no idea how to do it with SH3D! Does bdfd have any tutuorials on how he did this? I have looked in YT but couldnt find any.

I was able to find a drafting person to look at the design, and he came up with a roofing approach, and I have included a picture. Im not sure what software he was using?:

Thanks very much for any advice

CB55

Posted by Keet at Jul 19, 2023, 8:32:21 AM

Re: Skillion roof design
I'm not sure but from what I see I suspect the roofs are boxes resized and tilted. You can see that because of the square angles of the borders. Even if they are something else you can achieve the same with boxes.
If you want to have the border with vertical sides you can use the Generate 3D Shape (menu Tools) to create that shape. First create the roof with a box and tilt it to the correct position. Export and import the box-roof so you have some guidance to the dimensions you need for the shape.
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Posted by hansmex at Jul 19, 2023, 9:57:25 AM

Re: Skillion roof design
A simple sloping roof can also be made with the Roof Generator plugin - example

The roof was made in 1 minute - if you need/want an overhang, make the room bigger, easy-peasy

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Posted by Keet at Jul 19, 2023, 10:12:36 AM

Re: Skillion roof design
~~And now I wonder what bdfd used: boxes or the Roof Generator...~~

I'm almost sure he used boxes because of the square angles of the borders. With the Roof Generator the borders would be angled vertical like you could also create with a Shape.
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Posted by Keet at Jul 19, 2023, 10:17:53 AM

Re: Skillion roof design
By-the-way: I would create a shape or use a box. The simple reason is that with a shape you can texture each border side individually which means either different textures, different alignments, or both. If you want a wood-structure texture for the borders this is a requirement because otherwise one side will have a wrong oriented texture.
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Posted by hansmex at Jul 19, 2023, 10:56:04 AM

Re: Skillion roof design
@Keet - I'm lazy... simple & fast = my motto
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