Learn how to build a roof and add details with basic skills in sketchup.
How to create a roof in sketchup.
Easily creates roofs with various parameters in sketchup plugin name.
Home builders sometimes go a little crazy creating gabled roofs with dozens of different pitches slopes dormers eaves and other doodads that make modeling them in google sketchup a nightmare.
Believe it or not building a hip roof is easier than building a gabled one in sketchup.
How to create a uniform sloped roof in sketchup.
Architects and builders often express angles as rise over run ratios.
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.
This video features the push pull move and offset tool.
Hip roofs don t have rakes which makes them a lot less complicated to model.
2 use the protractor tool to create an angled guide at the corner of your roof.
Create an odd shaped building.
Create a roof overhang.
Most gabled roofs have eaves so you probably need to create them for your building.
An l shaped building in this.
You can approach the construction of a gabled roof in google sketchup in a bunch of ways every sketchup expert has her favorite but one method in particular works well consistently.
By aidan chopra.