Polyline Ridge Cap

[billemery]

George, Dorothy and Bryce,

You're Welcome. Thank you for the feedback.

Here's a little more information about using this method.

Draw a hip or pair of hips, set the layers, moldings, and lines with no moldings as you want them to appear, then copy and paste to other hips using transform/replicate or point to point move. The hip can be stretched to fit using the perpendicular end line that controls the miter.

Then select all of the moldings and transform/replicate to bring them all up to eave height. Then all that has to be done in the DBX is to bring up a few points to ridge height.

It's likely that a minor adjustment in height for the whole assembly will be necessary to get it exactly down on the roof.

It would be nice to be able to do it automatically, but this is fairly quick and easy, and I had fun figuring it all out.

[peterbrown]

I tried to make a molding symbol for a ridge cap.

what I did was in a new plan (plan view) drew a solid 4"x8"x1/4" thick, then in section views canted the solid as a shingle would be on a ridge. converted to a symbol.

in another plan drew a cad line, converted to a molding polyline and used this new ridge cap symbol. seems to work ok, did I do it properly?

tried to copy/reflect it with trans rep tool, but it came out facing wrong direction.

Ideas?