[Tutorial > Modeling] Basic Roof

[Gaieus]

Say an easy way would be:

1. start drawing a line from the top endpoint of your profile
2. hover over the slanting edge until you get the inference "on line"
3. now press (and keep pressed) the Shift key to lock your line in that direction
4. start extending the line towards the middle of the roof (shift still pressed)
5. use the midpoint of the edge of the "ceiling" closest to you to set the extent of your line
6. now you can click to finis drawing the line
7. draw a vertical and a horizontal line to close the face
8. delete extra geometry...
   Also you can start (at step 2) with a rectangle big enough to reach to the middle of the roof.

[sk.lion]

interesting, i really liked this tutorial, everyone should learn these types of tutorials. At any rate, there is the roof tool which can handle most of the work, for which i use now instead of doing it the long way. Still, should learn this anyways.

[Gaieus]

Yes that's true. But IMO learning the basics and realizing the ways SU work is essential before getting to tools that are not supposed to do the job instead of us but to help us and speed up the workflow.

Yet I hope that our scripter friends won't misunderstand my words and think that I put their works down.

[TIG]

I wrote Roof.rb AND I agree that you should know how to do a roof "manually". I will still make simple roofs by hand. Sometimes even complex roofs are easier that way too - try roofing a cranked star shape and it'll fail - there are shapes that can't be roofed with a hip that's all the same pitch - it's just physically impossible - so that's when doing it 'the long way' is needed...

Understanding what SUp can do 'straight out of the box' helps you see where some plugins MIGHT help in complex tasks, but knowing how to do something is invaluable, even if you rarely need to actually do it...

[Aegedus]

Hi,

is there any way to retrieve original file for this tutorial (on the first post)?? the link seems to be broken ..

I already used both tuto "How a Pro Builds a House in Sketchup" Part 1 and 2, but I'm still asking many questions about best way to design roof and positionning it on the second floor walls ...

Thanks in advance ...

AG

[Aegedus]

Anyway, this is an opportunities to show what happen with the roof I designed :

So first, I trace the floor plan :

Then I build up the walls :

.. I never get any best practise for 2nd floor ... so I did same than 1st floor. I built the floor, I draw the plan on it and I build up the walls :

My first error here is I don't designed door and windows on the plan ... anyway, I did them be extrusion but I think it would be more confortable from the plan.

to be continued...

[Aegedus]

Then, I built the roof apart and I positionned it on the 2nd floor. My idea was to cut the walls with the roof and to keep only parts needed. But, what a mess finally !!! Many walls are wide open now and it's difficult to retrieve closed geometrical forms :

Anyway, presentation is nice ... and my first objectif is a volume study for an extension to be coming :

Many thanks for all the help I found on this forum.
Aegedus