When the roof framing is finished we make sure that the gable is plumb and that the frame is square so that the ends of our sheets don t wander off the rafters.
Narrow half gable roof sims.
The half gable is useful where a lower level of the building extends out from the upper level.
They are useful for adding a roof to an outcrop of building.
With this piece of roof selected grab the arrow handle and drag it to the other end of the house.
Using the half gable tool place a roof along the thin outer edge of the second floor on both sides and a gable roof on the top section.
Raise the roof pieces till the side pieces reach the top of the wall and lower the top piece.
A basic roof the gable can form the basis of many different roofs and is characterized by a triangular section of wall on two ends with two sloped roof sections.
Make it so the gable ends are at the sides of the house.
As the name suggests it is half of a full gable with only one roof section.
Now pick the half gable tool and place it on the lower floor at the front with the slope of the roof matching the roof on the upper floor.
The base game has gabled half gable hipped and half hipped roof styles along with their diagonal versions.
Half gable and half hipped roof.
There should be a distinct difference in pitch between the top section and the sides.
These tools create roof sections that look like they have been cut in half.