Creating a Gable roof with Vectorworks 2010

This is the starting shape for the roof, the plan of the walls. We want a roof with two roof planes, and a gable to the left and right.

• Select the polygon. 
• Go to the Menu Bar.
• If you are using Vectorworks architect, choose AEC > Create Roof...
• If you are using Vectorworks Landmark, choose Landmark > AEC > Create Roof...

• Create the roof with the settings you need for this project. 

The resulting roof. The roof always starts off with hip roofs all round.

• Go to the Basic toolset. 
• Choose the 2D Selection tool. 
• Click on the blue handle at the left side of the roof. 
• Make this roof plane a gable.

• Click on the blue handle at the right side of the roof. 
• Make this roof plane a gable.

So far the roof is looking better, but it is still not what we want.

The trick is to convert each roof plane into a gable, starting with the first plane.

Then the next roof plane.

The roof is half way there.

Convert the next roof face to a gable.

And the next roof face.

When you finish the last roof face, you end up with the roof you want.

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