Medeek Project

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First look at an elevation view of a simple house plan with a complex roof:

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The roof overlay has now been added to the Floor Plan and the Upper Floor Plan:

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Complex roofs is still a work in progress, no surprise there. The interface will mirror the Truss plugin since we already know how that works. When a roof is selected the "custom" roof planes (edges) will display in red rather than blue. A selected edge will switch to a solid color and the right hand menu will display the settings for that roof plane.

The same settings that are available in the Truss plugin will appear for the selected "roof plane type".

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And just for fun:

I call this the "Mountain House". A sufficiently motivated framer (lots of money) could stick build this, I'm quite convinced.

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Next is a test of the raised fascia offset:

My question is what do we do in the field at this sort of corner?

Also the same sort of thing at the re-entrant corner.

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Looks like we will also need to add in hip walls for these "half hip" type roofs:

I've also added in the Dutch Gable option for roof planes as well:

This almost completes my work on complex roof in the house builder. Of course some additional work remains in connecting the House Builder to the Truss plugin's API. I will also need to enable the API with some new methods for complex roofs, but that work is relatively straightforward.

Tomorrow I will look at the Roof Plan tab and probably add in a few more roof specific annotation options. Then from there we double check that the Print and DXF functions are wired up correctly.

And then finally we move on to Foundations.

However, this additional work on complex roofs has exposed the fact that I need to enable additional wall types in this app.

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First look at some exterior trim applied to a couple "test houses". Corner trim, band board, skirt board and frieze board.

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DXF output now enabled for Slab-on-Grade foundations.

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Interior Bearing (ie. footing + post & beam) are now added to the House Builder.

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First look at a basic Slab. The underlying code is very similar to a slab-on-grade so I should be able to complete this one more quickly.

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First look at column footings:

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First look at polyline stemwalls. Note that stemwalls and footings that are at the same Z height will auto merge for presentation purposes.

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First look at a stemwall foundation with openings and a floor slab.

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I've also enabled the entry stair option for foundation door openings

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I'm now spending a day or two integrating the eight different foundation assemblies into the elevation views. Here is a couple examples of column footings:

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I am now trying to wrap up stemwall foundations and the addition of windows, doors and blockouts, all within the elevation views. After further testing I'm noticing that all of this added complexity does potentially slow down the app/tool when enough windows, doors and dimensions are added. I will need to spend a few more days tightening up my "redraw" algorithms so that performance is maximized. The last thing we want is a sluggish interface.

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I'm also adding gable walls as well as shed and hip.

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Currently the various plan view tabs are treated as their own “sheets” or pages. In other words if you print that tab you get exactly what is in the viewport scaled to fit into a regular sheet size (letter, 11x17, Arch C, Arch D). You cannot add in other geometry from other tabs. This seems to work reasonably well for most of these plan views (ie. Floor Plan, Foundation Plan, Roof Plan, Floor Framing Plan etc…)

However, when it comes to elevation views things typically get a bit more interesting. Some designers like to put multiple elevation views on one sheet and in some cases all four if they will fit ( I like to do this for small ADUs for example). So it is not as easy as assigning one elevation view to one sheet, or even assigning two elevation views to one sheet, there needs to be more flexibility.

After giving this some considerable thought I decided what I really needed was a Layout system where the user can drag the elevations into the “workspace” and position them as they see fit, and then at that point add their annotations and dimensions. I have now created four additional Layout tabs where the user can do exactly that.

The only major thing I feel like I am missing at this point is a sectional view or section tool.

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I've also add Common Truss Roofs along with Complex Roofs.

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Version 1.2.8 - 10.11.2026

Added the "Draw House" tool to the Medeek Builder toolbar.

I'm releasing this update so that interested parties can test out the House Builder interface. It is currently not fully wired into the Medeek API so have temporarily disabled the "Create House" button. I will be spending the next week or two completely the upgrades to the Medeek API for the various mdkBIM extensions so that we can access API methods for floors, foundations, roofs etc...

The primary purpose of this update is to garner feedback on the UI and the front end. Please download and install this latest update and send any feedback directly to nathan@medeek.com. I will be very curious what everyone thinks of this new tool and I think you will find it is much more capable than the "prototype" Garage Builder".