Home designer architectural and home designer pro have a gable roof line tool which can be used to automatically generate a gable above the bearing wall of a hip roof plane such as if a wall break would be required in the same location as a door or window where a wall is not present such as across the front of an alcove or over a bay box.
Gable roof missing section of fascia chief architect.
Looks like the architect was trying to use all roof types known to man on one small house the garage front rh side is using gambrel roofs or two pitch with an added prow the main area is using an offset gable with the lower side coming off the 1st floor floor level to meet gambrel fascia heights.
We use many different methods for making the roof in chief architect.
Sub fascia and sheathing.
You have a wall on a layer that says cut at bottom for gable.
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Note the roofing extends beyond the subfascia 12.
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I have literally never needed to use the gable roof line tool except when i was still on architectural and needed a gable to start in the middle of a window or door and couldn t just break the wall at that location to mark that wall section as full gable.
Learn how to create roofs in chief architect using the automatic build roof tool and how to use the manual roof tools to create and edit roof planes change the wall properties for gable and hip roofs learn about gambrel shed and other roof styles.
Where gable walls cut through a wall that defines the room break the gable wall instead.
I would think this works for gable end also.
Check all your walls for room definition.
A step by step process on how to build a custom dual gable roof line in chief architect.
No second roof just define your fascia as 12 thick 12 thick pmolding fascia line and adj depth of fascia depending on roof pitch so it does not show up.
Chief architect quick tip roof design.
Keep this wall as a standard height wall and draw a gable wall on the attic layer.
Chief architect quick tip curved roof kiosk.
Roofs over bay box and bow windows.
In this video i explore som.
Roofs over curved walls.