Opening Slope Drawings

Architectural, Framer

You can create a slope drawing of each roof slope. The slope drawing shows the number of the slope and the roofing material information.

  • A slope drawing of a metal roof shows the sheet positions and lengths for installation at the building site.
  • A slope drawing of a tile roof shows the batten spacing, the slope area and the number of tiles.

Create slope drawings as follows:

  1. Select the roof slopes in the roof layout. Click the slopes one by one with the Ctrl key pressed down, or click one slope and then select all slopes by pressing Ctrl+A.
  2. Right-click to open the context-sensitive menu.
  3. Select Open Slope Drawings.
  4. If you have created the slope drawings earlier, you will receive the following prompt at each slope: "Picture already exists, create a new one?" Select either of the following:
    • Yes - The program creates the drawing again, and the changes made to the slope are refreshed in the drawing.
    • No - The drawing created and saved earlier remains unchanged.

The slope drawings are opened in separate drawing windows. A roof slope is always presented as viewed in the direction of the slope rise in the slope drawing, regardless of the slope's position in the model.

You can later open the slope drawings from the building's document browser.

  1. Open the Architectural documents/Roof slope branch in the building document browser.
  2. Double-click a drawing name.
Note:
  • You can find out the eave and ridge lengths and the material consumption of the roof when you collect the materials of the roof layout and create a bill of materials.
  • The edge line of the slope is added to the layer 0 by default. You can define the drawing properties of the slope's edge line in the GEOMPROP keyword group using the line name ROOF_CHART.LINE.