How To Draw A Hip Roof

The hip roof can have all four sides the same measurement or two long sides and two short sides.

How to draw a hip roof.

More information can be found about the shape and design features of hip roofs in wikipedia s article on hip roofs then you can return here for how to build yours. Most gabled roofs have eaves so you probably need to create them for your building. In this example a simple rectangle is drawn. I use autocad to do this but you can use any 2d drafting package or even pen or penc.

This pattern helps in the cooling of the interior portion of house and ensures a reduction in energy bills with reduced power consumption. The hip end jacks tab displays a dimensioned side view and top view of the hip roof jack rafters for the hip end side of the hip rafter on an irregular hip roof. To start drawing in the hipped roof draw lines at 45 degree angles from all the points on the roof as shown in blue. If the wall plates are all square of equal lengths then the hipped rafters would form a pyramid shape like the picture above normally a roof is rectangle and there are more yellow common rafters.

In this tutorial i will explain how to draw and draft a hip roof plan. In this step i have drawn in some dashed lines. Generally there are three major factors that contribute in the design or style of a hip roof. The 45 degree angle lines represent the hips.

Select build roof build roof from the menu to open the build roof dialog. Now we can draw in the ridge lines as shown. Hip roofs don t have rakes which makes them a lot less complicated to model. The other 2 lines the horizontal and vertical line are there to make an imaginary box.

Strength for those areas where wind and cyclones are more common. The slope of a hip roof tends to be the same for all four sides. This dialog also serves as the default dialog for roofs settings here apply to manually. To create a hip roof select build wall straight exterior wall from the menu and draw four connecting walls to form an enclosed area.

This video accompanies google sketchup for dummies by aidan chopra. Believe it or not building a hip roof is easier than building a gabled one in sketchup. Eaves hip roofs having deep eaves that can assist in shading a window from sunlight.