Roof Plugins

[Vikki Nagindas]

Isee this is somewhat off an old post. But I tried out this method. But it seems to get a hole in the center of the roof. I Measured the longest edge i think. But the area in the middle is so big that it the gable doesnt go all the way to the top. Any tips her? Test.skp (997.3 KB) Hip roof805600 26.8 KB

Hi Erika,

Very nice design, well done.

The suggestions you have received above (@TIG and @Geo) should be especially helpful. From my experience, I agree with using SketchUp native tools for your roof/eave/soffit modeling. By combining an increased understanding of SU, you will find the native tools very helpful and lead you to your desired results.

Good luck.

Thanks! I was wondering if this method always would work. But that makes sense.

I finished school not too long ago. So i have another account with the company I work for now, but seems I forgot to switch it on my webbrowser. It was just out of curiousity though

My firm is currently transitioning into using Revit as our standard. We are working on a wooden construction building, and I am looking for a plug-in that can automatically generate a roof truss layout. This could be similar to how you can generate a beam system layout, but I am looking for something that can generate the roof structure of a hip roof. I have been looking around, but all I can find are plugins that only generate the rafters, not including the trusses. Does anyone know of a good Revit Plugin that can generate all these roof conditions?

New version 2.0

Finally I've give up to reinvent the wheel.

Thanks to Tom Kelly for his campskeleton, a professional solution. It work on more than 95%

Thanks also to Daniele who help me and point me on right direction.

Of course could be improved but not by me.

Problem: steel don't compute texture coordinate correctly.

Thanks Emmanuel!

A week ago I've read something about licenses and I've see that Jama is in public domain.

It's my fault to forget to add this license but I'll fix it in next version IF I will still use it.

I've already exclude Jama.utils.maths while I've modify the dependencies with Math.hypot.

I will see what else depend of Jama but that it takes time.

Anyway, if need it I'll use it and I'll add corresponding licenses.

Don't worry too much about it since public domain = free to do whatever you want with the code.

But mentioning it is a good idea because it thanks the authors of Jama and avoids other people to look for a possible omission in licences list. Adding a note about it in README.TXT is probably enough.

i was looking for this plugin and while i installed it (using the latest version of sh3d), when i hit generate roof, it always creates a triangle. No other components. Tried it on a square room.. etc.

I have found two small errors in the design and would like to ask you to correct them. These are just trifles.

1. The width of the column for Edges output

2. The background color for the output

Thanks for the quick response. It is much better, the flashy colors are gone. But the width is a bit too big now.

But if you are asking for improvements, it's ready :-)

I have made new big icons for the explaining the borders, for dark and light theme. I don't know, wat you prefer.

@chriswmackey, what do you think if we automatically remove the horizontal roofs from the export or the validation routine to avoid causing confusion? Is there a case that keeping them around will be useful?

Andy, in my opinion, you should try a displacement map. It's the easiest way to do it, and I do that to all my wood siding. Here's some renderings I did for Habitat for Humanity. All the wood siding is a displacement map. You could do the same for the roof shingles. I used a gradient band from black to white to show the displacement. I also use displacement maps for brick and grass as well.

That being said, I kind of opted for this when I started really struggling with the batzal plugin. So this is a roof which I unwrapped and photo textured with a little displace on it. Funny coz I was against that from the start:

Quickly after using the web ui, especially when printing, the memory consumption is spiking and reaching as high as several gigabytes (until the whole available memory of the pc, 16 GB, is depleted).

I use Firefox on Windows 11 but also saw the issue when using Windows 10.

On Chrome the memory consumption does not appear to spike. But the browser is lagging instead.

Did you open the GCode viewer tab at any time when this happened? The GCode viewer is the most memory-hungry component by a large margin in normal circumstances, if the GCode file is large enough. If you use the GCode viewer, please also mention the typical file size for your GCode when this issue appears.

As already mentioned on Twitter a couple week ago (I think), I'm pretty sure this is one of the third party plugins which running in safe mode would confirm. Manually disabling one after the next is of course also going to help narrow it down.

If the GCode is large enough, it can use multiple Gigabytes of RAM. But it probably doesn't explain this particular case. The most likely culprit here is a plugin. And it looks more like a memory leak and not just excessive memory usage.

I'm asking a lot of questions, but is there a sound method of creating a timber roof truss? I have so far played with the Framing Member tool to produce rafters, but Im hoping to not have to create from scratch. I havent seen any videos on this or the topic being discussed before. Could anyone point me in the right direction?

@MGilc the Vector Depot plug-in that Jon Pickup suggests does still work but I didn't find it suitable for the king post trusses used on a lot of the buildings I work with so I just modelled one + saved it as a hybrid symbol:

@MGilc, I'll second the concept of using extrudes. Particularly if you are dealing with wood as a "sculptural" as well as structural element - you'll want to model your truss so that you can get the grain running in the right direction. This can mean modeling individual members of the truss. The good news - once modeled you can save it as a symbol for ease of duplication.

This image shows a "hybrid" model - I initially used the framing tool to frame walls, floors and roofs. I then went back and modeled those elements in the roof that needed to be trusses and then added the chicken ladders, etc.

Bevent Rasch MagiCAD plugin is an extension application that integrates Bevent Rasch selection tool, Dimensio into MagiCAD for AutoCAD. With the integration the user can easily select roof cowls and silencers from Dimensio and insert the selected products into their MagiCAD for AutoCAD projects.

In addition, the plugin also includes support for insertion of Bevent Rasch combination roof cowls. The plugin combines roof cowl and roof inlet into one product package and creates additional connector to the outdoor system.

Since there are different types of material assemblies for roof which would affect what value would be used to determine the automated value, cove.tool makes that assumption for the users based on Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) building prototypes.

Roof R-Value: This measures how effective your roof material is as an insulator. The default R-values for roof (assembly) are referred from ASHRAE table 5.5. cove.tool will automatically populate the R-values based on the location of the project assuming the Insulation Entirely above Deck roof type for all commercial building types except small offices (Attic and Other).

In an energy model, Roof objects are defined as the insulated top surface of a conditioned space that protects against solar radiation and heat gain. Roofs are part of the thermal envelope, therefore ceilings should not be considered roofs unless they are not exposed to the outside environment. The roof object for cove.tool must only depict the cap of a thermal envelope and not expand beyond the conditioned space. For example, a canopy, cantilever, overhang, or balcony, would not be considered roof objects even if they do have identical construction properties. Instead split these elements, and export them as shading devices.

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It will therefore be necessary to cut the excess from the roof, using the vertical opening tool. The below screenshot shows an extruded roof on a building that is not rectangular. We will trim off the unwanted corners.

The next step is to use the Vertical Opening tool, which can be used to cut a hole in the slab object. In this case we are going to create the holes at the edge of the roof which will effectively cut the corners off.

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