Opening Slope Drawings

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. Do either of the following:
   • Select Roofs > Roof Siding Material Layout Tool > Open Slope Drawings.
   • Select the function in the project's document browser:
     1. Move the cursor on the title Architectural documents / Roof slope.
     2. Right-click to open the context-sensitive menu.
     3. Select Open Slope Drawings.
2. 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.

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.

Line Setup
Roof Layouts
Printing a Drawing
Collecting Materials of a Roof Layout
Project Document Browser