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Hi again, I'm back with my roof problem. I hope someone could give me some direction. I have a very complex roof I need to model. I can't really loft a triangle along a ridge line. This thing has gables and valleys all over. I've got autocad files of the elevations which I can dxf in. I've got a sketchy plan view of the eaves. I've tried a varity of ways to build this thing but to no avail. I've tried bring in each elevation as a shape and lofting each side a short distance thinking I could move the back verti around and boolean the thing together to get the valleys. This doesn't seem to be reliable because I am forces to move the polygons apart in the shaper, move them backtogether in 3ded and snap will not let me line them up nicely. The complexity rapidly overwelms me. I have another project that has a nice plan view of the roof, but again I must seperate out the polygons to get it into the 3ded and then alignment is a pain I guess it really comes down to…for complex roofs…must I construct my geometry in Autocad? I really don't see anyway to build this thing in 3ds in a reasonable timeframe. Can you build a roof based on Elevs only or Plan only? HELP!!! thanks gods Todd