Roof Help, Please!

[lil builder]

Hi All,

I have read through many of your questions and they have all been quite helpful, however, there is a certain look I am trying to achieve and have tried a hundred different ways and can't get it. Any help anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated!! I want to achive the look in the picture below. The part I am having trouble with is that the dormer right hand (lookin from the outside in) run directly in to the gable roof line and everytime I try to build a dormer it doesn't do this. So in the middle of my room is where the dormer wall and the roof line come down. I hope I am being clear and if not let me know. basically, I want to know how to make the dormer connect into the rest of the roof instead of poking out of the roof on both sides.

Thanks for any suggestions!!

[Ray C]

This is the boiled down answer! :-) follow picture sequence

Auto or manual build
Select incorrect roof section, lock the ridge, change the pitch to match it’s opposing
In plan view use the (join roof section?) tool
This should get you going, hopefully

Ray






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[lil builder]

Hi Ray C,

Thanks, but what I am looking for is not one gable intersecting the other gable, that seems to work fine. But, I need one gable intersecting the other gable and then a dormer out of the second gable that intersects the first gable. Did I confuse everyone with that discription? LOL

I attached a picture of what I have now below. I want the dormer to the right (larger with 2 windows) to extend into the gable facing you. I want to avoid the roof line cutting into the room in that part of the house.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
lil builder

[JimC]

lil builder,
not to derail you but how did you attach that last image?

[Jim Rogers]

Not in quick reply but post reply is a box that says "manage attachments" You use this box to select the attachment you want to upload and then it will display. Many posts on how to do this here. do a search for more info.....

[sutcac]

lil builder- Do what Ray C says, but for the lower roof that wraps around the dormer, just add that in manually later, or extend it manually from other roof planes. In your photo, it looks like that section of roof is completely non-structural, just basically tacked on, only giving the illusion of the dormer cutting through it. The face of the dormer looks as though it is completely lined up with the wall below it.

In your image, you need to put some breaks in the roof plane that surrounds the larger dormer and make it wrap around it. Then extend the lower pitch roof over the dormer over to the main gable and joint that all manually.

Hope that helps.

[Dan Park]

Just an FYI but we are offereing a roof's class in Phoenix in May. Should be good as we plan on covering some parapet roof styles. There's still time to sign up.

[lil builder]

Hi Sutcac and Ray C and anyone else who can help,

Thanks everyone for the help! I think I mostly got it I just have the problem below now. I have a beam cutting through the room that I can't seem to get rid of. Any ideas?

Thanks,
lil builder

[sutcac]

I am going to guess this coincides with the intersecting wall (invisible? invisible beam?) on the right? Something isn't joining properly there, or at the opposite corner and/or you have a room definition issue. What does this long dormer look like in plan?