Roof By Extrusion

Key points the roof by extrusion tool is used to create wave form type roofs you create a sketch of the upper profile of your roof in a side view i e.

Roof by extrusion.

Display an elevation 3d or section view. Creates a roof by extruding a profile that you sketch. So first of all let s go ahead and create our reference plan. Elevation of section you can select a reference plane to sketch your profile on as long as you have a named one in your model.

Click architecture tab build panel roof drop down roof by extrusion. There are certainly other videos in this course that had us extruding a roof but none that had us actually doing it for our main roof suppose you have a roof that is impossible to create in a plan view that s where roof by extrusion comes into play what we re going to be doing in this video is create a reference plane to start our roof then we re going to sketch out our radial profile once we re finished we re going to extrude the roof to the other side of our. The highest level in the project is selected by default. Specify the work plane.