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Add a roof

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- [Instructor] With the walls in place, we can now move onto the roof. Now, as you can see, I already have drawn one roof on this structure, and you'll see that this is a shed roof, so we've got two objects here. One is kind of the upper walls for that bedroom wing, and the second one is the actual roof for that bedroom wing. So this is the profile that we want to create, and let's go ahead and duplicate that on the main side of the building. So, here we have the main side of the building, and the first thing we want to do is lift up the walls so we have enough room to make this upper section here. So, I'm going to do that by using this outline as my guide. So, if I select my walls exterior, double-click on them, you'll see that this face is what I need to use as my profile. But I only want to do this one side of the building. I just want to do the main wing of the building. So, I'm gonna segment this off just by using the line tool. So I'm gonna select the Line tool and just draw two…

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