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01-23-2014, 07:55 AM #1Registered User Promoted
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This curved roof questions brings up a similar question I've had for awhile- is it possible to create a parabolic roof shape in CA? I'm trying to design a gabled-roof house where the ridge line skewed to the walls, and is not level. Putting in straight rafters on either side of this skewed ridge creates a parabolic "dish" on each side. I wonder if there is any trick whereby I could create an object to simulate the skewed ridge, and CA would fill in the space from the top of the walls to the ridge? I doubt that it is possible, but it would be nice. It may be possible to do in sketchup, but is there a way to import a sketchup object that functions as a roof (that the walls would fill in below)?
David Hornstein
www.light-house-design.com
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01-24-2014, 02:32 PM #2
David, I'm definitely not the guy to come up with the answers (a case of the blind leading the blind ). But for my own edification and amazement I went ahead and generated the framing of my structure to see what CA would come up with. I had to tweak some of the rafters a little bit (one side of the roof framed a little differently than the other), but the result was to me at least, surprisingly buildable. I only bring this up because the way CA framed from the curved ridge beam to the curved eave fascia with straight rafters seems to be what you are looking for.
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