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Originally Posted by LittleHaus
Thanks all, for your replies. I'm going to try The Law of Sins tonight on a test model, sreimann. Vermin_King, yes, it's a hipped roof of sorts. Rotating lines on Gimp sounds like what I've been doing with pen and ruler on paper, but I don't understand how you can find the height of the side roof. It always seems to depend on how slanted the roof is. The more slanted, then the higher that side roof triangle needs to be. ( This is what comes from not paying attention to all those geometry lessons years ago ).
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If I understand you correctly, you are designing a model after the drawings or photographs of the real thing. So, if you have both the front view and the side view of the building with this roof in the orthographic projection, you can simply measure all the dimensions directly from the drawings.