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.

Strength for those areas where wind and cyclones are more common. Select build roof build roof from the menu to open the build roof dialog. To start drawing in the hipped roof draw lines at 45 degree angles from all the points on the roof as shown in blue. Create a roof overhang.

Now we can draw in the ridge lines as shown. 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. This pattern helps in the cooling of the interior portion of house and ensures a reduction in energy bills with reduced power consumption. I use autocad to do this but you can use any 2d drafting package or even pen or penc.

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. 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.

In this example a simple rectangle is drawn. To create a hip roof select build wall straight exterior wall from the menu and draw four connecting walls to form an enclosed area. The hip roof can have all four sides the same measurement or two long sides and two short sides. Eaves hip roofs having deep eaves that can assist in shading a window from sunlight.

In this tutorial i will explain how to draw and draft a hip roof plan. The 45 degree angle lines represent the hips. This dialog also serves as the default dialog for roofs settings here apply to manually. The other 2 lines the horizontal and vertical line are there to make an imaginary box.

This video accompanies google sketchup for dummies by aidan chopra. The slope of a hip roof tends to be the same for all four sides. Most gabled roofs have eaves so you probably need to create them for your building.