I've been trying to do roofs with 2x rafter systems under the roof skin pretty successfully until somone decides later on in the design process to change the roof pitches, arrrgh!
I use a 1" roof, and then create rafters as structural members. If I try while in sketch mode to lock the top side of the rafter to the bottom side of the roof and then offset (for the bottom side of my rafter) the appropriate distance ( 8" for a 2x8 ), and lock it with a dimension, when I change the roof pitch, theoretically, you would think that the rafter would adjust accordingly since it is locked to the bottom of the roof plane. Wrong
I've also tried constraining the rafters to a refrence plain with the same results. They don't seem to work.
Attached is a pic of what I'm trying to do. I have to change roof pitches here and there and none of the rafters will update after making the roof pitch changes.
Is there a way to do this correctly? Am I going about this entirely wrong?
If anyone has any input at all, I am all ears at this point.
Thanks in advance guys!
--JJ