How To Make Hip Roof In Sketchup

This video accompanies google sketchup for dummies by aidan chopra.

How to make hip roof in sketchup.

Believe it or not building a hip roof is easier than building a gabled one in sketchup. How to use intersect with model to quickly create a hip roof. The figure shows a complicated roof with several elements. I started using sketchup as part of my work as a general contractor in 2008.

If you ve ever struggled to create a roof on a building in sketchup this extension can make your life a lot easier. Gabled roofs have been pushed pulled into the main hip roof at all different heights but edges don t exist where all the different faces meet. In the steps that follow use intersect faces to create the edges you want and then use the eraser to clean up the mess. 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. The way it works is simple you simply create your building then select a face go up to extensions roof and select the kind of roof you d like to create on your building. Create a roof overhang. I quickly realized the power of the software and started using it for personal projects.

Easily creates roofs with various parameters in sketchup plugin name.