Sketchup How To Make A Hip Roof

The hip rafter is generally thinner and deeper than the jack rafters.

Sketchup how to make a hip roof.

Architects and builders often express angles as rise over run ratios. Then enter those measurements into an online roofing calculator to determine how long each common rafter will need to be. In this case the birdsmouth cut is 3 5 for all jack and common rafters and the overhang is 12 all the way around. In order to maintain a constant overhang the wall with the steeper.

To download the model for free click thi. Make the slopes on all four sides the same. The hip rafter is dropped and off center so that it lines up with the roof planes. Believe it or not building a hip roof is easier than building a gabled one in sketchup.

So that the jack rafters get a full bearing at the top. 2 use the protractor tool to create an angled guide at the corner of your roof. This is a study of hip roof framing where unequal pitches meet at the hip. Create a roof overhang.

In terms of setting out your roof make sure that the hip rafters are at 45 degrees to the wall plate. To build a hip roof start by measuring the width and height of the building you re putting the roof on. Easily creates roofs with various parameters in sketchup plugin name. 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. The hip roof combines a 12 12 pitch with a 6 12 pitch. This clip shows how to draw a realistic hip roof and its accessories with sketchup s native tools and free plugins. This video accompanies google sketchup for dummies by aidan chopra.