How To Draw Hip Roof Elevation

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How to draw hip roof elevation.

This dialog also serves as the default dialog for roofs settings here apply to manually drawn roof planes as well as automatic roofs. From the view of the other two sides it will stay at one level. In the elevation view that is generated select cad line draw line from the menu then click and drag to draw a cad line snapped to the ridge of the roof where a third pitch will be added. To create a hip roof select build wall straight exterior wall from the menu and draw four connecting walls to form an enclosed area.

Cabinetwork fireplaces roofs design and construction original format. I use autocad to do this but you can use any 2d drafting package or even pe. Set the pitch in 12 to the value you desire. To start drawing in the hipped roof draw lines at 45 degree angles from all the points on the roof as shown in blue.

Roof plan front elevation left side elevation rear elevations right side elevation interior details topics. The internal roof lines are called valleys and the external roof lines are the hips as shown. The horizontal roof line at the left of the elevation drawing extends from the apex of the hip at the left to the apex of the valley at the side of the higher hip end corresponding with the horizontal ridgeline at the top of the plan drawing. In this example a simple rectangle is drawn.

177 until it intersects the hip line of the main roof g and then drawing the valley line f. The slope on the back side of the roof over the wing b should have the same slope as the back side of the main hip roof and therefore the lower part of the. As you can see the 2 lines to the top left of the image are just drawn in approximately. Make sure it extends into the roof plane.

To pick up the roof plane behind that edge instead hover your cursor with the spot slope over that edge but before you click to place the spot slope hit the tab key on your keboard once. We will determine there length in the next step. Select build roof build roof from the menu to open the build roof dialog. To draw the roof for each elevation view first consider whether your roof will overhang and drop below the exterior wall on the elevation plan you are currently drafting.

We proceed in the same way as explained for the wings a a drawing the ridge line e in fig. In elevation view the spot slope is landing on the edge of the hip. On the roof panel of the build roof dialog. For a shed or gable roof with eaves the roof on two sides will drop lower than where it connects with the wall.

Part 2 in this tutorial i will explain how to draw and draft a hip roof plan.