Sketchup How To Add A 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 add a roof. Most gabled roofs have eaves so you probably need to create them for your building. Easily creates roofs with various parameters in sketchup plugin name. Create a roof overhang. This particular roof has both a gable 2 gables and a hip.
Hip roofs don t have rakes which makes them a lot less complicated to model. By aidan chopra. Here i demonstrate how i make and complete a typical roof in sketchup. 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.
Also you learn how i mak. Check out our other tutorials at http tara. Believe it or not building a hip roof is easier than building a gabled one in sketchup. 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.