How To Draw A Hip Roof

Now draw a 45 degree line from each corner toward the centerline that can help to establish location specifications for.

How to draw a hip roof.

The hip roof can have all four sides the same measurement or two long sides and two short sides. Select hip from the roof type dropdown list or click on the corresponding button on the toolbar to calculate a hip roof. Press the letter r on the keyboard to repeat the last command. The hip will be drawn automatically.

Select build roof build roof from the menu to open the build roofdialog. The slope of a hip roof tends to be the same for all four sides. Construct the hip by entering plan construct hip or use the keyboard shortcut h on the keyboard. Most gabled roofs have eaves so you probably need to create them for your building.

The preview window displays a dimensioned plan view of the hip roof. Select build wall straight exterior wall from the menu and draw four connecting walls to form an enclosed area. To start drawing in the hipped roof draw lines at 45 degree angles from all the points on the roof as shown in blue. Use the line tool to draw a vertical edge from.

We will determine there length in the next step. As you can see the 2 lines to the top left of the image are just drawn in approximately. Architects and builders often express. Move the mouse represented by a cross crosshair to the line marked a in figure 5 and click the left mouse button.

Create a roof overhang. This video accompanies google sketchup for dummies by aidan chopra. More information can be found about the shape and design features of hip roofs in wikipedia s article on hip roofs then you can return here for how to build yours. Every common rafter is the same length brown and each hip rafter is the same length too red.

In this example a simple rectangle is drawn. Use the protractor tool to create an angled guide at the corner of your roof. The green arrows above show every side is equal we ll assume 2 metres for this example. Start with a layout of a rectangular shape building.

Locate a centerline at the middle section.