Monoslope

One roof plane from a low eave to a high eave, with taller posts on the high wall, high-side eave trim instead of a ridge cap, and hard caps so the high wall never becomes a cliff.

What it is

Mono trusses or rafters running low wall to high wall, taller posts on the high sidewall, a high-side eave strut, no ridge. eaveHeight stays the LOW eave; the right wall carries the high eave. Single-slope panels, high-side eave trim in place of a ridge cap, eave trim at the low eave, rake trim on both ends.

Also called: monopitch · shed roof · single slope · lean-to building

See it
Monoslope
Prepared for
Gideon Alt
1140 Ridge Line Rd · Fair Play
Shell package$34,491
Concrete & site$10,013
Doors & windows$6,676
Trim & finish$4,450
Total
$55,630
Signature
Monoslope end elevation showing the low eave at left, the high eave at right, and corner trim running the full height of the high wall. Sample data — no customer information appears here.
How it works
  1. 1wallSkinHeight() returns the high eave for the right wall and the named eave for every other wall, so the wall steel line groups by real run height.
  2. 2The end wall gable infill is a right triangle rising to the high wall rather than an apex triangle.
  3. 3Three coupled reality caps are resolved in one place so drags and steppers hit the same wall: mono pitch tops out at the trade's 4/12, and no combination of pitch, eave height and width may push the high wall past the maximum buildable eave.
  4. 4Past roughly 40ft of span a mono truss gets deep at the high end (depth is about span times pitch), which raises an engineered-territory warning before anyone draws a building nobody can order trusses for.
  5. 5Corner trim on the high-wall corners runs to the HIGH eave.
Why we built it

Dragging the high side of a single-slope roof produced buildings taller than anything anyone would put up, and the corner trim covering the wall joint stopped short of the top and ended in mid-wall. The high wall is capped at a buildable height and the trim runs the full height of the wall it covers, so what a customer is shown is a building they could actually be sold.

The problem
  • Monoslope geometry that produces an unbuildable high wall.
  • Wall steel counted at one height when one wall is much taller.
Sound familiar?
What you get
The high wall is always inside buildable range.
High-side eave trim is ordered instead of a ridge cap that does not exist.
Span limits flag engineered mono trusses before they are quoted.

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