Swayback Gable Roof?

[billemery]

Segment angle is controlled in the roof DBX.

[Rich Winsor]

Segment angle is controlled in the roof DBX.

Duh! Or as Homer would say, Doh! You know, I tried tinkering with the Segment Angle setting but in all the excitement of seeing a workable solution to my problem I had a severe brain cramp and neglected to remove my visible straight exterior walls from the plan view so that the auto build roof feature could use the invisible curved exterior walls to generate the roof profile. Once I came to my senses I was able to generate a quite acceptable swayback gable roof. Now, thankfully, I can send that weird taco shaped roof plane that I generated in SketchUp to the recycle bin. I don’t know how you came up with your “curved wall” approach Bill (talk about thinking outside of the box)? I doubt I would have ever stumbled across it as my tunnel vision was focused solely on working within the “Build Roof” and “Roof Plane Specification” dialog boxes. Anyhow, I am much obliged to you and everybody that chimed in on the topic.

[billemery]

I might also mention that this process is very useful for oriental roof lines with a flared prow. This can be done very effectively with an elliptical wall.
See this thread: http://www.chieftalk.com/showthread....liptical+walls