Adding House Detail
Use House Detail to enhance the exterior of your home designs with a wide variety of architectural elements. House detail includes functional components such as roof vents, chimneys, and skylights, as well as decorative features such as gable vents, shutters, skylights, solar panels, and more.
The following design uses a wide variety of House Detail objects, including shutters, gable vents, pediments, door and window trim, solar panels, and more.
To add House Detail:
- Switch to the Perspective view (not required but recommended).
- Adjust your view until you can clearly see the wall or roof of the house you want to add the detail to.
- From the Building tab, click Add House Detail.
- Select the desired model and click OK.
- Click the wall or roof you want to add the detail to. Hold Ctrl while clicking to add more than one.
Adding Custom Detail
You can add custom detail using the modeling tools, or by importing them using the Model Import Wizard. When the wizard prompts you for the object type, select House Detail. Your custom models will then appear in the Custom tab when browsing for detail.
When you add detail included with Realtime Landscaping, the Attach option is set for you automatically. However, when using custom detail you will need to set this option each time you add it.
| Attach Option | Description | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Wall | Attach to the closest vertical wall. | Gable vents, shutters, brackets, braces |
| Corner | Attach to the closest exterior corner. | Quoins, custom corner trim |
| Gable Top | Attach to the peak of the closest gable wall. | Gable pediments |
| Roof (slope) | Attach to the roof surface, following its slope. | Solar panels, skylights, some types of roof vents |
| Roof (upright) | Attach to the roof while remaining upright. | Chimneys, cupolas, weathervanes, certain roof vents |
Tips:
- (Architect) House detail does not appear in the Plan view when displaying the house as a floorplan.
- House detail can only be attached to houses, and cannot be moved to another house once it has been added.
- You can also move detail using the keyboard. See Moving Objects for details.
- When adding quoins, you can reverse the orientation by clicking and dragging left and right across the corner.
- Gable pediments automatically conform to the slope of the roof.