I’m trying to install panels for a metal roof. I’m working on the rear hip roof and all I need to do is trim the panels that are overlapping so that the rectangular panels fit in the triangular roof space. I know that the geometry of the hip roof doesn’t exactly touch the rest of the roof but I’m not worried about correcting that unless it its easy to do. Can you show me how to trim these panels? I’ve attached my Sketchup file.
If yes draw a large ‘cutting block’ and align it with the center line of the hip.
Then trim the panels with the cutting block.
If they are not solids, make them solid. Then read this post again.
Or, draw a vertical rectangle, align it with center of the hip, edit the panel - select all, right click, intersect faces, manually delete what is not needed.
Is there a reason you have modeled the panels individually? The easiest thing would be to model the roof as simple flat faces and apply the texture to them. Nothing to trim then.
Based on what you’ve shared, adding diagonal edges on the roof faces to split them will allow you to erase the unneeded parts.
Before you get too much father into that I would suggest you correct the face orientation in your model. There are a lot of reversed faces. Your styles with the white back face color don’t fix this problem.
It would also be good to fix incorrect tag usage. ALL edges and faces should be created and remain untagged. Only groups and components should be given tags. This is the result of fixing that in your model.
hello, if you want to have a detailed roof anyway, have a look at this free extension
(second video in the thread for a roof example)
for some reason the visual preview doesn’t work with 2025 but the extension operates fine anyway. It doesn’t apply to you if your profile is correct and if you’re still on 2022 version
To add to Dave’s comments, I would suggest to temporarily remove the car in the garage. It contains more than 100 000 edges and more than 64 000 faces.
This component weights about one third of your model (4,3 Megs on 14 Megs).
Your garage door can be improved. Click in sequence on the scenes tabs of this SU file for ideas.
Thanks Jean, That’s a very good idea. I had no idea the car was that heavy. I’d like to clean up the garage doors but as a beginner, I still don’t know how to show all of the hidden edges of a component or a model. Can you tell me how to do that? Thanks very much. Jim
