Hello everybody!
I have a couple of years using SweetHome3D, it is amazing. Thanks to the creators.
I did see, one of the main needs of users (not only me) was the making of roofs. The main options was:
â£Create a couple of identical walls at 45º, export as object, and import as roof. But if you wanted to insert a gable roof section into another, it looked good from above, but from inside, it was a mess (the corners of the inserted section were visible from below). Not to mention the creation of a hipped roof.
I've seen other answers, on YouTube, for example, about adding a roof, but the video creators did not share how did they get or make the roofs, only show how to place them.
I've just see does exist a plugin. I'd like to test it.
So I decided to make my own solution. Before sharing it with you, allow me to tell I'm not an architect nor professional designer, only passionate, as cliché as it sounds. I learned CAD only to produce roofs, and that took me to build pieces of roof that doesn't exist in real world, but very useful in roof modeling and, as far as I've experienced, are useful to create any roof you imagine in SweetHome3D.
After months of racking my brain solving one and another issue with models made by me in a CAD software, I built this model:
The objective was all pieces came from the same unit, so angles and shapes fit again in any form you want. From this model I did cut:
â£A hipped roof half.
â£An open gable roof segment.
â£An insertion of an open gable roof segment upon a slope of another roof.
â£A trim for a slope that will be inserted and fits with the above piece.
â£A single slope
â£A corner of two open gable roofs inserted with ridges at 45º.
As I did realize, SH3D draws textures upon objects as wallpapers projected from the zenit. If you import a piece of furniture coming from a CAD software whose "zenit" is different, the textures will be drawn very puddly. So I racked my brain a little more to fix all pieces in order as the textures were drawn in such way the roof-lines were 0k (the water drains down, not sideways).
And finally, with these pieces working, I created a dormer.
I share now a RAR file with all the pieces and a house to use as example of how to use these pieces, and for you to take from it the pieces if you want (This house hasn't a hipped roof, but the part is available in the compressed file).
Whole house
Pieces
Note: The rar file contains a set with the roof pieces in Spanish and another with the names in English.
As I told you, I'm not professional or expert. My models are useful for modeling visually a house, maybe there are obvious fails for users who really know about building houses. Please let me know.
My next goal is to build pieces able to construct roofs with insertions at angles different to 45º, like in this house:
Although, this wasn't a real house, only a set for American Pie 2. But the idea is nice.
I hope your comments.
