Curved eaves

[billemery]

I think that this is somewhat cool, and also a sure sign of having too much time on my hands.

It's possible to create a curved edge on a roof line, or hole in roof using solid subtract. Once the curve is created it can be further edited as I have shown in the final screen shot.

I think the main use for this will be the manual creation or editing of roofs adjacent to curved walls. I was playing with a turret earlier today and found that I could get a very nice curved roof edge coming into the the turret wall.

Chief will automatically generate a segmented edge approximating the curve; but the above method generates a true radius.

[Gene Davis]

Please describe for me how to do solid subtract, Bill.

I can add p'lines solids, but did not know you could do subtractions.

[billemery]

It doesn't seem to work in V10 for the roofs.

You can do unions, intersections, and subtractions of polylines and polyline solids in Version 10.

For subtraction simply overlap the objects, select the object that you want altered, select the subtract icon, and then select the object that will be subtracted from the first object. you will be prompted as to whether to retain the original object as the operation is completed

[billemery]

More curved eaves.

Once it is created the curve can be broken and further edited.