The “Follow Me” tool (5) – First issue

One problem you may encounter is a hole in the roof.
The reason for this is that the base surface of the roof is not from the center of the upper edge when we have drawn.
You have two ways to solve this problem.
One possibility is undo all the steps of the roof and start again.
A second way is to close the gap in a correct way.

The first thing you do to close this hole is by using the Line tool.
Click on the first endpoint of the hole, and then the second endpoint of the hole.
This fills the hole with a flat surface.

 

For those who quietly want go to sleep,without getting wet when it rains, this is enough, but I want my roof as a complete slope, and not a flat piece on top.

The first thing you need to do is click the center of the edge of the upper flat surface.

Move the pointer vertically upwards to the blue axis, with the Shift key on your keyboard pressed. In this way we lock the drawing axis and we can move the cursor to any point in the drawing area.

Then move your mouse pointer over a slope, left or right does not matter, and click. By this we determine the height of the line that we need, to get the correct slope of the roof, then
release the Shift key on your keyboard.

Then click on the vertex (that is the Endpoint) of the plane.

What we have drawn is a basic plane with the right slope.
Then select the flat surface to serve as the path.

And then click the base plane with the “Follow me” tool.

Our roof is now already a pointed roof, only the point is in the blue, which means that the surfaces are reversed.
We have already seen how to solve this in a previous lesson, but for those forgotten, right click on the  flat surhace, and select “Orient Faces” in the drop-down menu.

All the surfaces now have the same color.

The only thing you have to do is to erase the excess lines with “Eraser”.

And our roof is done.

 

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