How To Draw A Roof

Click and drag from one corner of the wall top to the other.

How to draw a roof.

Establish the first roof line and the incline vanishing point. Create an exact replica of the floor plan or footprint of the home on your graph paper. Step 12 draw a line from the front vertical line to the right vanishing point. Select build roof build roof from the menu to open the build roofdialog.

To start drawing in the hipped roof draw lines at 45 degree angles from all the points on the roof as shown in blue. The point at which all the rafters are. Now we can draw in the ridge lines as shown. In wireframe drag.

Measure out each plumb cut. In this tutorial i will explain how to draw and draft a hip roof plan. Which is equal to 1 4 or 1 3 the total span of the building not counting any overhang. This can be the trickiest part.

Draw a line from the front top corner of the wall to the top of the line you drew to set up the height of the roof. Select build wall straight exterior wall from the menu and draw four connecting walls to form an enclosed area. Be accurate with these. Step 10 draw an x to all the corners in the back square.

Parts of a roof a ridge board is a horizontal member of the roof frame. Carry this line beyond that point up into the sky of your composition. Line up the square with the pitch end of the chord and mark the line with a pencil. Create a structure to put the roof on.

Pitch also has its own denotation determined by the rise in inches in 12 inches. Some carpenters like to make this. Framing a roof architectural drawing. How to draw roof plans step 1.

Label and identify the parts of a roof framing plan. Input the pitch of the roof that you calculated above we ll use 7 12 for reference throughout on the framing square. Measure a roof pitch or a roofing slope that will identify the angles of the roof in relation to both vertical. Draw an x criss cross from all the corners in the front square.

Step 11 draw a vertical line thru the center of the x and draw the front one as high as you want the roof to be. I use autocad to do this but you can use any 2d drafting package or even pen or penc. Cursor changes to a transparent disc to gauge drawing height position disc on wall top before drawing. Pitch for a gable roof the most common is generally 1 4 or 1 3.

In this example a simple rectangle is drawn. Pitch can vary a great deal from a shallow slope up to a very steep pitch. Use the following steps to draw a roof.