0k, i'm here again.
Thanks to dorin, who cheered me up to enhance the set of roof parts.
Thanks to those who answered the post.
Here is the update:
- Monitor Roof included
- Slope with square hole for chimney included
- Shaded dormer
- 8-faced and 6-faced kiosk roof
- Border profile (Excuse me, I don't know the real name, but I've seen it in houses. It is a band to cover, hide blemishes and embellish the entire facade and borders of the roof).
- Same old parts:
* Open Gable segment
* Single slope segment
* joint tip/male (to insert an open gable at 90 grades to another)
* joint couple/female (to insert an open gable at 90 grades to another)
* Corner of two V roofs (at 90 grades)
* hipped roof half
* Gabled dormer
Everything has this enhancement:
A lower layer with independent material. So, once you finish your roof from above, the base (ceiling of the attic) is ready as well!
Most of the parts has the "border profile" included. If you use a part in middle of other and need no "border profile", make it invisible. You can make invisible only one and leave the other one.
The use of the parts is available in the model house of the images and the SH3D model that is linked.
I strongly recommend to build the roof in an independent level from the attic. So, place the attic's furniture in a 0.3m high level (upon all the other stories), and in a new level, 0.3 above the attic level, build the roof (with no room, obviously).
The parts are infinitely stretchable.
The "border profile" name in the RAR file is "bisel-ractangular".
Issues to improve in a near future:
- Include a magnetism feature between these parts. I don't know how to do it. But would be nice to add it because in the 3D view, imperfections in the fitting of parts aren't viewable enough, or doesn't look very important, but once you render a picture... look at the pictures of this post.
Don't worry, you'll be able to 100% fit manually the pieces. The rendering will tell you how you did it.
- Textures shrink alongside with a piece and become unrecognizable from some extent. I do not know how to fix it, so far.
LINKS
Dropbox
The file contains:
- A folder with the pieces of roof
- The house model (of the pictures of this post)
- The pictures of this post.
Comment:
I hope to stay making improvements. I want to try the roof generator plugin, of course. I will tell you my opinion.
From the first moment I used SweetHome3D and wanted to make roofs, I had this idea and I developed from absolute 0. No idea of architecture nor CAD. My goal is no competitive, it is collaborative. If someone find this useful, it will make me happy.
Remember, this pieces work as a puzzle. Use them to build any roof you imagine.
Readers and members of this forum, please share this post. I haven't realized there was a 10yo idea almost identical. That is because search engines show only results of 10 or 15 giants of information, and what isn't in there, doesn't exist. Prr.
I'll be waiting for your comments and ideas to improve this set.
Have a nice day.
