Flat Roof in X6 - the easy way!

[Joe Carrick]

Some of us are accustomed to making flat roofs with parapet walls by using a floor without a roof and a short room height. This works pretty well as long as you don't need to show any slope at all - but it pretty much requires a parapet wall.

X6 has a new tool that makes it possible to easily do this without the parapet wall (short railing).

Just use the "Room Divider" as the roof edges - it works like a charm.

[Ben Palmer]

Joe, do you mind elaborating...how do you get parapet walls with room dividers? Do you still do an upper floor?

Thanks!

[Joe Carrick]

Ben,

I use the Room Divider where I don't want parapet walls - it's still a Floor but there are no parapet walls. When I want Parapet Walls then I use a standard Solid Railing Wall.

[dshall]

Ben,

I use the Room Divider where I don't want parapet walls - it's still a Floor but there are no parapet walls. When I want Parapet Walls then I use a standard Solid Railing Wall.

So why not use an invisible wall? Any difference?

[Joe Carrick]

So why not use an invisible wall? Any difference?

If the flat roof is adjacent to a higher exterior wall then an Invisible Wall might result in the wall surface being interrupted - the Room Divider doesn't do that.

[Ben Palmer]

Got it...thanks for the additional info.

[amateurdesigner]

Joe, can you post a rendering and plan please? It is hard to imagine without seeing it.