Roof Outline Creation

When you are creating floor plan drawings and need to dash the roof line (or slab line) over. There is a quick and easy way of creating this linework without having to resort to detail linework.

In this example we are going to use a Level  1 with a Roof at Level 2

On you Level 1 Floor Plan, go into the View Properties and set Underlay to Level 2. This will show the Roof Outline as Halftone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All you need to do now is go to the Modify Ribbon and the  linework tool and pick the Roof Edge using the <Overhead> (or other accepted Linestyle) and it changes the outline of the roof to that line style.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Set the Underlay to none and you are done!!!

 

The best thing about this way of showing the linework is that it is linked to the roof and if the roof layout changes it will update the linework (with a couple of exceptions).