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    • TIGT Offline
      TIG Moderator
      last edited by

      Your selected face is at z=0... AND it's facing downwards [top face is looking down] !
      It's a limitation that a lone face at z=0 will fail...
      So try moving it up from z=0 [even 1mm will do!] ... [AND you can also try Reversing it using the context-menu].
      It should then work OK...

      TIG

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        ijestan
        last edited by

        @tig said:

        Your selected face is at z=0... AND it's facing downwards [top face is looking down] !
        It's a limitation that a lone face at z=0 will fail...
        So try moving it up from z=0 [even 1mm will do!] ... [AND you can also try Reversing it using the context-menu].
        It should then work OK...

        WOW this works for me thanks a lot

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          jyrki
          last edited by

          Hi Tig!
          Great plugin. Im lifting up planty of houses from sitemap and drawing roofs on the top. There are many roofs with same angels and gabels. Often foundation is same height from ground and floors heights are equal. So I thought If you could add some parameters for those. Then when user have set default values. He can just pick countinues how meny house rectangles he want from sitemap and results are houses with roofs. I hope you understand what I mean. It is little bit faster to work this way. But of curse this is great plugin already. Great job. Thank you. D
          ☀

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            shelton mendes
            last edited by

            Hello I am Brazilian, and I'm kind of new here!
            I was wondering how good to install roof.rb with details?
            sketchup is my version 8
            plugns already put in the folder and nothing happened qunado opened the sketchup8
            I could only install v-ray!
            can someone help me?

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            • TIGT Offline
              TIG Moderator
              last edited by

              @shelton mendes said:

              Hello I am Brazilian, and I'm kind of new here!
              I was wondering how good to install roof.rb with details?
              sketchup is my version 8
              plugns already put in the folder and nothing happened qunado opened the sketchup8
              I could only install v-ray!
              can someone help me?
              Shelton - please complete your User Profile, so we know about your OS etc...

              Installing this tool is much easier than most...
              The .rb file goes into the Plugins folder.
              The 'help' files need to be installed separately - they need to be extracted from the ZIP and these too go into the Plugins folder.
              After a restart the 'Roof' toolset should appear in the Plugins menu under a submenu called 'Roof...' containing various roof tools, the Help files will not open if you have not installed the 'help' files.
              The 'Help' contains detailed explanations of how to use each of the tools...
              These can also be opened independently outside Sketchup...

              If you are having problems with installing tools then why not get thomthom's 'Simple-Plugins-Installer' - it's available to download from the SCF 'Plugins Index' [via the Resources menu item above].
              His tool comes as a RBZ archive and is installed using the v8 Preferences > Extensions > Install... button. Thereafter it appears in the Plugins menu and can be used to auto-install tools or toolset in RB/RBS/ZIP and RBZ formats... So for example with the Roof tool you get the RB and install that, then the ZIP of help files and install that... Thereafter the Roof tools should appear under the Plugins menu submenu list...

              TIG

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                sketchitbrk
                last edited by

                Thanks For the new update much appreciated

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                  ervau
                  last edited by

                  Hi!
                  Yes - it is a great plugin. But...

                  Can you imagine, what kind of error I'm producing with the Roof-Plugin here?

                  • On the first shape it worked fine (so you can see...) (Pic 1)
                  • When I want to use it on the second shape, all I get is a Bugsplat 😞 (Pic 2)

                  Do you need the Buglog of SketchUp? (I can't read the .dmp-file...)

                  FYI: I'm using SU 2013 Pro (V 13.0.4124) and Roof 3.7 just new downloaded.

                  Thanks a lot!
                  Robert


                  Screenshot: 1st roof worked fine. 2nd shape produces bugsplat...


                  Screenshot: All I get :-(

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                  • TIGT Offline
                    TIG Moderator
                    last edited by

                    Delete the face and recreate it by drawing over the8 edges in a clockwise direction.
                    The face will reform try re-roofing...

                    Also try reversing the face.
                    Or copying it above, group it, delete the original, move the face-group over the original location and explode it, this can fix edge weirdnesses...

                    TIG

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                      ervau
                      last edited by

                      @tig said:

                      Delete the face and recreate it by drawing over the8 edges in a clockwise direction.
                      The face will reform try re-roofing...

                      Thanks for the hint.
                      Doesn't work either - unfortunately.

                      I've deleted the face. By drawing the first edge, it reappeared - grrr.
                      So, I've copied it (z more than 0, I've learned above 😉 ) and drawn the eddes by reference lines. Deleted the face and the edges and drawn it all clockwise.
                      Bugsplat again.

                      Ha!!! There it was: Before I used the plugin, I turned the face correctly. Without turning it (the backside above) it works!

                      So long
                      Robert

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                        sokeuyhaw
                        last edited by

                        it's nice plugin and work as well in sketchup pro 2014 thanks TIG

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                          Mill29
                          last edited by

                          Very great tool, thanks a lot!

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                            grim
                            last edited by

                            👎 hipped does not seem to work in SU2015 is this correct for anyone else????

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                            • TIGT Offline
                              TIG Moderator
                              last edited by

                              It should work in all versions...
                              I'll double-check...
                              Did you install the latest version from the PluginStore ?
                              http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=Roof

                              TIG

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                                Dave R
                                last edited by

                                It worked for me in SU2015.

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                                  grim
                                  last edited by

                                  thanks for the input, i have removed it and reloaded it a couple of times it seamed to clash with onion dome which also did not work removing onion dome and reinstalling roof ----------- now works

                                  thankyou

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                                    huckrorick
                                    last edited by

                                    Hi,
                                    I just installed the latest version.
                                    I made a simple rectangle. Selected the face.
                                    Went to Plugins>Roof>Hip
                                    no matter what combination of parameters I use I get a message saying:
                                    "Hipped Roof Error.
                                    It was not possible to make a single pitch hipped roof from this face."

                                    What could be the problem.

                                    Using SketchUp 8 Pro, Windows 8.1

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                                    • KrisidiousK Offline
                                      Krisidious
                                      last edited by

                                      @huckrorick said:

                                      Hi,
                                      I just installed the latest version.
                                      I made a simple rectangle. Selected the face.
                                      Went to Plugins>Roof>Hip
                                      no matter what combination of parameters I use I get a message saying:
                                      "Hipped Roof Error.
                                      It was not possible to make a single pitch hipped roof from this face."

                                      What could be the problem.

                                      Using SketchUp 8 Pro, Windows 8.1

                                      just guessing here... broken edges? are you lines complete and unbroken?

                                      By: Kristoff Rand
                                      Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                                      • pilouP Offline
                                        pilou
                                        last edited by

                                        Just Push Pull your surface (even 1 mm), select the top one then call the plug! 😉


                                        roof.jpg

                                        Frenchy Pilou
                                        Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                        My Little site :)

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                                        • TIGT Offline
                                          TIG Moderator
                                          last edited by

                                          As Pilou says, the roof face's plane must be 'flat', BUT it CANNOT be at z=0.

                                          BUT this might not be the issue...

                                          It is quite possible to make a face-shape that can't be used to make a properly resolved hipped roof - at least one with all faces at the same angle as needed by 'Roof' - e.g. a cranked star...
                                          Try making the roof manually - it's not possible to 'hip-roof' some such forms unless you make some roof-faces slope at different angles...

                                          Also sometimes a face's edge-order get 'jumbled' - the solution is then to select the face, group it and then explode it immediately, this often fixes the data-base jumble as the merged face/edges are properly ordered.

                                          TIG

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                                            LarryCarrerra
                                            last edited by

                                            Hi to all,
                                            First of all, thanks to everyone in the Sketchup community, I'm new to it and I discover really fair people. Now to TIG, thank you for this great plugin, really powerful, a masterpiece ! A free masterpiece !
                                            Unfortunately I'm too young here to send MPs so my request will be public.
                                            Actually I have to teach Sketchup and I would like to put the "roof" plugin into the process. Issue : I'm french and not everyone understand english (especially technical terms), is it possible to get the "unscrambled" version so I can traduce it in french ? If it's possible I would be pleased to upload it here with your agreement.
                                            Thank you in advance.
                                            Larry

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