Sketchup How To Draw A Hip Roof Trusses

Complex hip roof created with trusses using the medeek truss plugin.

Sketchup how to draw a hip roof trusses.

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. You can draw polygons on faces or separate from existing geometry. The larger hip sets are stepdown hip sets with drop in purlin frames. Learn how to create simple howe roof truss in sketchup.

In this video george shows you how to layout and build a basic roof truss. He uses standard lumber components to create the rafters then the king post and then fills in the details. The smaller roof is a standard terminal hip set 16 span. This script has everything going for it.

Drawing lumber with sketchup series part 8 how to draw roof trusses duration. Believe it or not building a hip roof is easier than building a gabled one in sketchup. This model also has a girder truss with valley set at the the roof intersection. Select the polygon tool on the toolbar.

This video accompanies google sketchup for dummies by aidan chopra. Hip roofs don t have rakes which makes them a lot less complicated to model. Follow these steps to draw a polygon. 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.

Medeek truss is a sketchup extension that provides a simple interface for creating accurate 3d truss and roof geometry within sketchup. As you hover your cursor over a polygon you see endpoint midpoint and from point inferences. Dropin purlin hip set step down hip set terminal hip set valley set. The sketchup inference engine interprets each side of a polygon as a segment.

Most gabled roofs have eaves so you probably need to create them for your building. 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.