Sketchup How To Make A Hip Roof

This clip shows how to draw a realistic hip roof and its accessories with sketchup s native tools and free plugins.

Sketchup how to make a hip roof.

Believe it or not building a hip roof is easier than building a gabled one in sketchup. Make the slopes on all four sides the same. Architects and builders often express angles as rise over run ratios. The hip roof combines a 12 12 pitch with a 6 12 pitch.

To build a hip roof start by measuring the width and height of the building you re putting the roof on. Next once you know the lengths of the rafters cut some wooden planks to size and make birdsmouth cuts in each one so. 2 use the protractor tool to create an angled guide at the corner of your roof. This video accompanies google sketchup for dummies by aidan chopra.

Then enter those measurements into an online roofing calculator to determine how long each common rafter will need to be. Most gabled roofs have eaves so you probably need to create them for your building. How to use intersect with model to quickly create a hip roof. Hip roofs don t have rakes which makes them a lot less complicated to model.

To download the model for free click thi. In order to maintain a constant overhang the wall with the steeper. In terms of setting out your roof make sure that the hip rafters are at 45 degrees to the wall plate. The hip rafter is dropped and off center so that it lines up with the roof planes.

For example a 4 12 pronounced 4 in 12 roof slope rises 4 feet for every 12 feet it runs a 1 12 slope is very shallow and a 12 12 slope is very steep when using the protractor tool sketchup s measurements box understands angles. The hip rafter is generally thinner and deeper than the jack rafters. Easily creates roofs with various parameters in sketchup plugin name. In this case the birdsmouth cut is 3 5 for all jack and common rafters and the overhang is 12 all the way around.