How To Draw Hip Roof

The preview window displays a dimensioned plan view of the hip roof.

How to draw hip roof.

Use the protractor tool to create an angled guide at the corner of your roof. The internal roof lines are called valleys and the external roof lines are the hips as shown. We will determine there length in the next step. Architects and builders often express.

Select build roof roof planeand click and drag a baseline across the length of a wall. Then mark another plumb cut 25mm over which denotes where the hip would touch the wall plate if it wasn t for the gap. Select build roof build roof from the menu to open the build roofdialog. Release the mouse button and move your cursor in the upwards direction.

Use the line tool to draw a vertical edge from. This dialog also serves as the default. To start drawing in the hipped roof draw lines at 45 degree angles from all the points on the roof as shown in blue. When creating a hip roof be sure not to draw across the entire length of the wall as you will need space on either end for adjacent roof planes.

To create a hip roof select build wall straight exterior wall from the menu and draw four connecting walls to form an enclosed area. Most gabled roofs have eaves so you probably need to create them for your building. Create a roof overhang. On the roofpanel of the build.

Mark the length of the hip measuring down from the longest point of the plumb cut. That is where the seat cut should be made.