How To Draw A Hip Roof

In this example a simple rectangle is drawn.

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. Hip roofs don t have rakes which makes them a lot less complicated to model. Now we can draw in the ridge lines as shown. The slope of a hip roof tends to be the same for all four sides.

In this tutorial i will explain how to draw and draft a hip roof plan. This pattern helps in the cooling of the interior portion of house and ensures a reduction in energy bills with reduced power consumption. In this step i have drawn in some dashed lines. 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.

Select build roof build roof from the menu to open the build roof dialog. 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. I use autocad to do this but you can use any 2d drafting package or even pen or penc.

To start drawing in the hipped roof draw lines at 45 degree angles from all the points on the roof as shown in blue. Hip rafters are the diagonal rafters that span from the ridge at the top down to the corners of the roof. 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.

This dialog also serves as the default dialog for roofs settings here apply to manually. 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. Create a roof overhang. Most gabled roofs have eaves so you probably need to create them for your building.

Generally there are three major factors that contribute in the design or style of a hip roof. Eaves hip roofs having deep eaves that can assist in shading a window from sunlight. The 45 degree angle lines represent the hips.