Selecting Roof Plans

[thorn]

What’s the trick to selecting roof planes, other than zooming in very close every time?
I click on a roof plane, tab through every wall, room, window, dimension and whatever else is near by before the roof plane is selected.

[dshall]

I usually click on the eave (no room, dimension, window, door etc located there).

[Jim-H]

Create a "Roof" layer set and lock everything but the roofs. Then just click close to the inside of the roof plane to select. Nothing else to get in your way.

[carpenterguy]

Or select the roof plane tool then select the roof plane you need, this will go to a roof plane first.

Andy.

[ChiefNewB]

my plan is uncluttered and when in roof mode i have a **** of a time selecting roof planes - all it tries to do is draw another roof plane instead of selecting existing. sometimes chief makes me want to scream at the developers and say "get real designers in your labs to test this before it hits the market!"

so much good in this program yet some oversights make the mundane impossible sometimes!

[lurcher85]

Make sure that roof planes layer isn't locked. If it is unlock it and try the method in post #4.

[ChiefNewB]

yeah i am in roof mode and it only wants to draw roof planes, not select them. and no they are not locked.

[Allen Brown]

Brayden, I really don't have this problem, but I think you could try right clicking to select the roof plane.

[ChiefNewB]

ahhh I figured it out - my snaps were all messed up.

Allen could you look at my other thread at the top of the most recent? "roof question" i think is the name of it. if you have a minute that is.