Dormer calculator
OwnerDean Onchuckinventor
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Abstract
The present invention is a method for laying out a dormer that projects outward from a main roof and has a gable end and a dormer roof originating at a dormer point and terminating at an outer edge of the dormer roof near the gabled end. The dormer includes roof sheathing supported by dormer trusses. The dormer trusses include a gable truss and a plurality of valley trusses. The method of the present invention includes receiving a plurality of dormer inputs from a user. A plurality of layouts for the roof sheathing on the dormer roof are generated as a function of the dormer inputs. One or more layouts are then recommended to a user to reduce a quantity of roof sheathing waste.
Claims27
A method for recommending a roof sheathing layout for a dormer projecting outward from a main roof, the dormer having a roof constructed from roof sheathing supported by dormer trusses, the method comprising:
- receiving a plurality of dormer inputs from a user;
- generating a plurality of layouts for the roof sheathing on the dormer roof as a function of the dormer inputs;
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- recommending at least one roof sheathing layout to a user.
A method for generating cut dimensions for pieces of roof sheathing to fit the roof sheathing onto framing of a dormer, the dormer framing projecting outward from a main roof and comprising a gable truss and a plurality of valley trusses, the method comprising:
- receiving a plurality of dormer inputs from a user, the dormer inputs including a gable truss height and a valley truss height;
- determining a quantity of roof sheathing pieces to be installed on the dormer roof as a function of the dormer inputs;
- determining the cut dimensions for each of the quantity of roof sheathing pieces, and
- displaying the cut dimensions to a user.
A method for determining locations of dormer trusses with respect to a main roof, the dormer trusses supporting a dormer projecting outward from the main roof along a pair of valley lines originating from a dormer point, the dormer trusses comprising a gable truss and a plurality of valley trusses, the method comprising:
- receiving a plurality of dormer inputs from a user;
- processing the dormer inputs to generate a gable truss spacing for spacing the gable truss from a first valley truss and a uniform valley truss spacing for spacing neighboring valley trusses from each other;
- determining the locations of the dormer trusses using the gable truss spacing and the uniform valley truss spacing;
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- displaying the location of each dormer truss to a user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.