Help With Smooth Cheese Slope Roofing

[SNIPE]

Hi,

I am trying to make smooth cheese slope roofing, but want the outside to be clean, so no studs, gaps, clutches, etc, just bricks or plates.

But I need to use very fine height step increments, I think its 1 - 3 LDU, I got the first 3 layers of cheese slopes working (the tallest row is a tiny tiny bit high but its acceptable.

It needs to be smooth if I run my finger over it, but I am struggling to add a smooth 4th layer

As you can see, I used goblets + 1x1 round plates in row 2, and 1x1 tile round w. bar + stud pins + 1x1 bricks + 1x1 slabs in row 3.

So, are there any "expert-experts" that can help me find solutions, I left the convex/concave corner cheese slopes out for clarities sake.

I also left the 1x1 square pyramid part out which is used for the apex.

 

Edited Tuesday at 04:04 PM by SNIPE

[Yperio_Bricks]

Maybe this technique can help. The base are alternating brackets and bricks with studs on the side:

[SNIPE]

46 minutes ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

Maybe this technique can help. The base are alternating brackets and bricks with studs on the side

 

That would be fine, but I'm not building in SNOT mode, the idea is for me to index every possible way to make roofs with the cheese slopes in regular building, then in SNOT mode. 

I need something that fits inside of my square ring of plates while not adding much extra height to the prev and/or next layer (because that space is valuable).

I did a few sizes but realised some layers were a tiny bit too high for my perfectionist eyes.

I think I did 5x5, 7x7 9x9 and 7x9.

I didn't do multi apex yet, or convex bends or triangular prism, only square pyramid in equalateral or skewed form.

Edited Tuesday at 06:04 PM by SNIPE

[Mylenium]

Why wouldn't you use the old 4070 brick method? That way it could even be integrated into walls by simply replacing other bricks. Otherwise I don't think you can make this perfectly smooth without employing another method entirely, but then of course you'd end up with a lot of bulky supra structure underneath. Those half plate heights are tricky to accommodate without brackets every two rows or the aforementioned 4070s.

Mylenium

[Grover]

14 hours ago, SNIPE said:

That would be fine, but I'm not building in SNOT mode, the idea is for me to index every possible way to make roofs with the cheese slopes in regular building, then in SNOT mode. 

It is possible. One layer underneath must lay SNOT on the bottommost row to avoid an edge, but the technique I used here does not use brackets. Aside from the first row, it uses 4070 to place the crossmembers, and the rest is studs up.

[SNIPE]

5 hours ago, Grover said:

It is possible. One layer underneath must lay SNOT on the bottommost row to avoid an edge, but the technique I used here does not use brackets. Aside from the first row, it uses 4070 to place the crossmembers, and the rest is studs up.

Ok ill try it, I have every type of SNOT plate, SNOT brick, bracket etc anyway.. Here are some examples of my builds:

If we can have every possible roof that uses cheese slopes catalogued in the bricksafe folder it would be a useful resource for lego MOC-ers

[SNIPE]

I got 5x5 working as per the image above using my original technique but I'm not sure that using brackets and headlight bricks is a viable solution for me for onwards 7x7 or larger, I can replace the outside but as I said it has to look like a smooth wall and be as low down as possible, I can't imagine there's enough space for brackets and cheese slopes here

 

Edited 2 hours ago by SNIPE