Ridge, Bardge Capping to roofs

[cddrafting]

Can anyone advise as to the best way to do ridge and bardge cappings for a roof.

Does the roof need to be in slabs or a solid. ?

[David_W_Koch]

Nathan Ellery has blogged extensively on roffs in ACA.  I am not certain he has covered this topic, but it would probably be worth your while to have a look at what he has written:

http://ausaca.blogspot.com/

[ntellery]

Sorry I missed your post!  Roof's my favourite subject.

I haven't mentioned anything specific on the blog about how to do these quickly but I have developed tools to do this and they work really well.  For residential work I find slabs not very efficient and never resolved how to make the hips resolve correctly at the bottom corners (as edge styles). After that I haven't explored any more with slabs and stuck with my beloved roof object. So how to do ridges & hips, barges etc.

I have developed a series of Structural elements (as braces) that are easy to attach.  If you check out my blog or the customer gallery here to show what you can achieve quickly.  I did this because I always render and  these give that little bit of detail quickly that make the image look better. The Structural Style has a shape (why is a shape different to a profile??) assigned.  For tin roof I require a different 'shape' for each pitch and ridge and hip are different pitch (quite a math exercise to determine those). 

Obviously can do the same for a barge.  Mine has Capping, timber barge & soffeit lining in one structural object. 

For a tile roof, I modeled a typical hip tile angled it and added it as a repeating element to a structural object with a unique end tile at the bottom.  Once created it's quick to apply, looks great and can even be used in the CD's.  No need for different pitches for tiles - one does all.

Took me some time of fiddling to get it all setup and I have a few unique ideas about setting materials etc that NOW make it a quick exercise. 

If I can just get my mike working I will do some vid's for youtube!