How To Draw A Hip Roof In Sketchup
This video accompanies google sketchup for dummies by aidan chopra.
How to draw a hip roof in sketchup. Create a roof overhang. I started the sketchup essentials as a place to share easy to follow sketchup tutorials and tips to help everyone harness the power of 3d modeling in their lives. By default the script produces an entirely hipped roof. This clip shows how to draw a realistic hip roof and its accessories with sketchup s native tools and free plugins.
Click on the path roof surface to select then click on the follow me tool and then click on the profile triangle roof piece. It slopes in all directions. To download the model for free click thi. Architects and builders often express angles as rise over run.
Selecting just a face produces a hip roof. To produce a roof form with a gable select an edge in addition to the face then run the script. There are several different strategies for how to model these kinds of roo. This will create the roof over the structure to include the eaves.
Use the protractor tool to create an angled guide at the corner of your roof. How to construct hip roofs in sketchup. In this tutorial learn how to model several different kinds of roofs in sketchup. How to use intersect with model to quickly create a hip roof.
If you did it right you will see some funky structures on your roof. Select an edge to tell the script where to draw a gable.