Sketchup How To Draw A Hip Roof Trusses

This video accompanies google sketchup for dummies by aidan chopra.

Sketchup how to draw a hip roof trusses. Hip roofs don t have rakes which makes them a lot less complicated to model. You can draw polygons on faces or separate from existing geometry. This extension utilizes the sketchup ruby api programming interface and is compatible with the latest sketchup releases sketchup make 2017 64 bit and sketchup pro 2020 64 bit as well as previous versions. He uses standard lumber components to create the rafters then the king post and then fills in the details.

This model also has a girder truss with valley set at the the roof intersection. The smaller roof is a standard terminal hip set 16 span. Complex hip roof created with trusses using the medeek truss plugin. The sketchup inference engine interprets each side of a polygon as a segment.

The cursor changes to a. Follow these steps to draw a polygon. Drawing lumber with sketchup series part 8 how to draw roof trusses duration. The larger hip sets are stepdown hip sets with drop in purlin frames.

Believe it or not building a hip roof is easier than building a gabled one in sketchup. This script has everything going for it. Create a roof overhang. Complicated roof trusses are surprisingly simple to draw with sketchup using methods explained in this tutorial which is the last of the how to draw lumber.

In this video george shows you how to layout and build a basic roof truss. How to create roof and gutter in sketchup hip valley roof duration. Most gabled roofs have eaves so you probably need to create them for your building. Instant roof by chuck vali of vali architects is a truly great sketchup ruby script its purpose is simple you use instant roof to quickly create gables hips sheds and trellises anywhere you need them.

Dropin purlin hip set step down hip set terminal hip set valley set. Medeek truss is a sketchup extension that provides a simple interface for creating accurate 3d truss and roof geometry within sketchup.