The way it works is simple you simply create your building then select a face go up to extensions roof and select the kind of roof you d like to create on your building.
Hip roof sketch up.
Complex hip roof created with trusses using the medeek truss plugin.
The two rectangular hip roof primitives were created with the medeek truss plugin.
Medeek truss plugin tutorial 3 a flying hip hip roof hip roof study ridge valley.
I am trying to determine the best method of framing out the intersection where the valley flying hip and lower ridge meet.
1 this tutorial will show you the simplest way of creating an intersecting hip roof in google sketchup which will also explain the functionality of the follow me tool.
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Google sketchup tutorial hip roofs and the follow me tool.
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The smaller roof is a standard terminal hip set 16 span.
I can draw the roof but cannot get it to raise.
Full video demonstration below.
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Sketchup has always allowed you to modify hidden geometry but in 2020 1 it will actually show you the piece in hidden geometry.
Dropin purlin hip set step down hip set terminal hip set valley set.
The larger hip sets are stepdown hip sets with drop in purlin frames.
View hip framing tutorial here.
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It is not a pyramid hip roof as there is a straight spot 10 feet long in the middle.
This clip shows how to draw a realistic hip roof and its accessories with sketchup s native tools and free plugins.
This makes it a lot easier to make changes to the geometry.
2 the two examples structures are nearly identical except one of them has both its gables with the same dimensions where as the second has alternative dimensions at each gable.
Use the line tool to draw a vertical edge from.
This model also has a girder truss with valley set at the the roof intersection.
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Use the protractor tool to create an angled guide at the corner of your roof.
Create a roof overhang.
This is a study of an l shaped hip roof with one valley.