How To Draw A Hip Roof

Generally there are three major factors that contribute in the design or style of a hip roof.

How to draw a hip roof.

Now we can draw in the ridge lines as shown. To start drawing in the hipped roof draw lines at 45 degree angles from all the points on the roof as shown in blue. The drawings are representative of all of the hip end side jack rafters and do not include the overall lengths which are available on the layout tab. To create a hip roof select build wall straight exterior wall from the menu and draw four connecting walls to form an enclosed area.

In this example a simple rectangle is drawn. The slope of a hip roof tends to be the same for all four sides. The other 2 lines the horizontal and vertical line are there to make an imaginary box. Hip roofs don t have rakes which makes them a lot less complicated to model.

Strength for those areas where wind and cyclones are more common. This dialog also serves as the default dialog for roofs settings here apply to manually. Most gabled roofs have eaves so you probably need to create them for your building. 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.

I use autocad to do this but you can use any 2d drafting package or even pen or penc. Create a roof overhang. Eaves hip roofs having deep eaves that can assist in shading a window from sunlight. 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.

In this step i have drawn in some dashed lines. The hip roof can have all four sides the same measurement or two long sides and two short sides. Believe it or not building a hip roof is easier than building a gabled one in sketchup. Hip rafters are the diagonal rafters that span from the ridge at the top down to the corners of the roof.

The 45 degree angle lines represent the hips. Select build roof build roof from the menu to open the build roof dialog. In this tutorial i will explain how to draw and draft a hip roof plan.