How To Draw Hip Roof In Sketchup

Google sketchup tutorial hip roofs and the follow me tool.

How to draw hip roof in sketchup.

Hip roofs don t have rakes which makes them a lot less complicated to model. Most gabled roofs have eaves so you probably need to create them for your building. This video accompanies google sketchup for dummies by aidan chopra. An l shaped building in this.

I personally like to draw in the overhang at this stage aswell by drawing out from the base of the roof by approx 300mm and then up from 300mm allows for soffit and fascia. Instant roof by chuck vali of vali architects is a truly great sketchup ruby script its purpose is simple you use instant roof to quickly create gables hips sheds and trellises anywhere you need them. This clip shows how to draw a realistic hip roof and its accessories with sketchup s native tools and free plugins. To download the model for free click thi.

Create an odd shaped building. Believe it or not building a hip roof is easier than building a gabled one in sketchup. To start you will want to draw the outline shape of half of one end of the hip roof. If you are creating a building that you that has odd dimensions that you want a uniform slope on read this article to learn how.