Thanks Alan,
I will give it a try

I am using pro, I tried exporting as a jpeg but the quality is very bad the line work is heavy. I will try exporting to layout and see if I can achive the image quality I am after.
Thanks for your help

Spent more time than I should have trying to work out what I am doing wrong. I have made my model turned on the shadows then went to export it as a pdf and the shadow do not show up. I was trying to get the image into photoshop, I tried every way I could think of. At first I wanted to export a pdf as a wireframe model (no shadows) worked great, then I wanted to export a pdf with just the shadows, but that didn't work (I wanted to lighten up the shadows in PS). Use the print function didn't give me the quailty I was after.
I finally ended up doing the shadows in PS and got the image in a title block, the final image(render) is to be finished by hand.
Please fill me in on what I am missing here.
Help please

There are really some great tutorials here

Never do the degree for 6/12 or anything it will never come out right even if you take it to the 100th decimal point. What I do is draw a line off to the side at 12' long and then a line at 6' high and then connect them, then you have your guild angle. You can copy and move the angle to your model, do a mirror to the other side and then where they meet is your first ridge. Then it is pretty straight forward from there. As long as you have your roof plan laid out it is like joining the dots in 3d.

That is a great tutorial, that is how a roof should be done (no need for a ruby)
Also here is the actual roof (with gable ends and real size)if someone want to have a go.

roof-plan.skp

Got rid of the hips at the ends and replaced them with gables, it is starting to look a little better.

I never knew there was a ruby script for roofs, I don't think I will use it because I always like to work them out. This roof is really ugly , I think I may make all the end into gables. I will post some updates tonight after work with the roof on the building (study model), and see if you guy have any suggestions / input.
Thank for looking to see if the roof works.

Can someone please check to see if my roof layout is correct. I am doing a multi-family building (building is not impressive at all )and the roof has hips and valley everywhere, it just looks weird. (the drawing is not to scale, I am going off memory "shape")

roof-layout.skp

Well here is my finished stair, tried to use copy along path for the guardrail post but I couldn't work it out. Anyway here it is a little rough but the job done, now onto working drawing for this stair

Also thanks CMD for the tutorial

Study-Stair-01.skp