Use this procedure to create a profile for the fascia and soffit.
The profile is made up of closed polylines. To represent solid fascia or soffits, such as a wood fascia, you can create a profile from a single polyline. To represent fascia or soffits that are extruded, such as aluminum soffits, you can create a profile from concentric polylines that can include one or more voids. The outer polyline, or ring, becomes the exposed shape, and the inner polyline, if used, becomes the void. You can create multiple voids by adding more inner closed polylines. The polylines are proportional in size and shape to each other and to the slab.
You can draw these polylines anywhere in the drawing and use any convenient scale relative to your final fascia or soffit size. One method for sizing the polylines relative to the slab or roof slab edge is to draw them by snapping to an existing fascia, and then move your completed polylines to an open area of the drawing to create the profile.
Assigning a profile as a fascia
Assigning a profile as a soffit
- Draw one or more closed polylines representing the fascia or soffit.
- Select the polylines, right-click, and click Convert to
Profile Definition. - Select the outermost polyline.
- Enter a (Add ring) as needed.
- Select an inner polyline as needed.
- Repeat steps 3 and 4 as needed to add more voids to the profile.
- Specify the insertion point for the fascia or soffit. (The insertion point is typically the lower-left corner.)
- Enter n (New), enter a name for the profile, and click OK.