Which roof suits this building?
Don't guess, see it. Narration in Turkish.
Hip or gable roofs, with trusses and panels, in one window
Automatic roof puts shape, pitch, eave overhang and truss spacing in one window, and shows how many trusses and panels you'll get before anything is created.
Hip, gable and mixed roofs
Trusses, ceiling and roof panels together
Porches and verandas on beams and columns
What is Automatic roof?
A command that adds the roof to a model with wall panels. It creates hip, gable or mixed roofs together with trusses, ceiling and roof panels, porch beams and columns. In the sample house, the hip roof gave 16 trusses, 22 roof panels and 22 ceiling panels; the gable roof gave 7 trusses, 12 roof panels and 12 ceiling panels.
Choose the shape
Hip, gable or mixed. For hip ends: half trusses or cut corner trusses.
Enter pitch and eave
Pitch in percent or degrees; eave overhang and heel height.
Choose truss and panel sections
Truss spacing; truss, roof panel and ceiling panel sections.
Check the summary
The bottom line shows truss, roof panel and ceiling panel counts, and joints that need an engineer's approval.
Create the roof
It's a single undo step: Ctrl+Z removes all of it.
Summary line of the hip roof for the sample house
16 makas · 22 çatı paneli · 22 tavan paneli · sundurma: 2 kiriş, 1 kolon ⚠ 2 girder makas birleşimdeki makasları taşır: mühendis onayı gerekli.
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Need the walls first?
Create architecture from plan builds the wall panels and opens Automatic roof at the last step.
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See the problem on screen, not on site
The checklist shows its place on the plan. Narration in Turkish.
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Create architecture from plan
Walls, doors and windows in a DXF plan are recognised; in three steps wall panels are built with studs, lintels and bracing.
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Production and CAM
Every profile is written with its length, holes and notches to the .bde file your rollforming machine reads.
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Presentation and costing
Renders with cladding, rooms and furniture; quantities, cost, rivet and screw counts from the same model.
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All contact channelsWhich plan shapes does it handle?
Rectangular plans as well as L, T, U and H plans. Small recesses don't split the roof; recesses that can join the roof are hatched in the plan and join it when clicked.
Where do ceiling joists start?
From the wall in every room: first the initial spacing from the settings, then the regular spacing. It can be turned off in the ceiling panel menu.
Does the program check truss adequacy?
The program flags joints such as girder trusses that need an engineer's approval. Structural adequacy is for the project engineer to approve.