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Using slope arrows

Using slope arrows

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Using slope arrows

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- There's a few different ways you can define slope in roof elements. You can use slope defining edges, you can use points with the shape editing tools, or you can use slope arrows. The subject of this movie is going to be slope arrows. I was presented this roof by a client some time ago and they knew some of the points on the roof, but they were having difficulty identifying the final point. So I've got a different view here that shows what we knew. We knew that this point here was zero, this one was four, it sloped up to eight here, but they were having a hard time figuring out what this point should be in order to build the roof and have it maintain a flat plane, so it was really important that this plane here didn't become canted. It needed to stay a flat plane. So we looked at a few potential solutions to solve it, but I consulted a good friend of mine who's an engineer, and she helped me with some of the…

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