Sketchup How To Draw A Hip Roof Trusses

Medeek truss is a sketchup extension that provides a simple interface for creating accurate 3d truss and roof geometry within sketchup.

Sketchup how to draw a hip roof trusses.

This script has everything going for it. How to create roof and gutter in sketchup hip valley roof duration. 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. Believe it or not building a hip roof is easier than building a gabled one in sketchup.

The larger hip sets are stepdown hip sets with drop in purlin frames. Learn how to create simple howe roof truss in sketchup. 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. The sketchup inference engine interprets each side of a polygon as a segment.

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. This model also has a girder truss with valley set at the the roof intersection. Most gabled roofs have eaves so you probably need to create them for your building. He uses standard lumber components to create the rafters then the king post and then fills in the details.

Drawing lumber with sketchup series part 8 how to draw roof trusses duration. The cursor changes to a. Select the polygon tool on the toolbar. Dropin purlin hip set step down hip set terminal hip set valley set.

This video accompanies google sketchup for dummies by aidan chopra. Complex hip roof created with trusses using the medeek truss plugin. Hip roofs don t have rakes which makes them a lot less complicated to model. The smaller roof is a standard terminal hip set 16 span.

Follow these steps to draw a polygon. Create a roof overhang.