Roof+Columns HowTo
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I just started playing around with sketchup and made a house with a gabled roof like here: http://www.et.byu.edu/groups/cmfac/fenn/CM210/notes/Roof%20Systems/roof%20types.jpg .
What I want to achieve now is the following:- make the roof to extend beyond the walls on all sides (overhanging)
- add equally spaced columns at the end of the roof on all four sides of the house. The columns should extend from the ground to the roof and connect to it smoothly.
How do I do this? Another, general question I have is: "How do you create a set of objects equally spaced?" Is there a tutorial explaining this?
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Little hard to explain in text how to do the roof/columns. Especially since there are tons of ways to do it. Maybe someone has the time to post a tutorial? I'd recommend looking through the Google video tutorials though, I think there's one that deals w/ roofs that should help you out.
There is a handy little trick I can share to equally space things though. It uses the move tool.
Select your object
select the move tool
hold control (this turns the move tool into a copy tool)
select the point you want to copy FROM
select the point you want to copy TO
then before you do any more clicking type *3 or /3*3 will make 3 more copies at equal distances apart. /3 will make 3 more copies in between the 2 objects you now have at equal distances.
The even cooler part of this function is that if you actually wanted 5, say, instead of 3 you don't have to redo everything. You can keep typing in commands and it will undo the last one and input the new one.
So if you type *3 and it's not enough just then type *5...too many? Hit *4, etc.
Hope that makes sense.
-Brodie
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Hi lilleskut,
To do roof, what I do is, when the wall is created, use the offset function, create the width of your soffit, then extrude your soffit depth then build the roof on top, that way it will create the depths you want as shown on the pic(well, you dont need to extrude the depth of soffit from your pic)
To do equally spaced column (also refer to the sketchup menu or linear array and polar array), draw one of the columns, find out what is the spacing between each column, say, you have 5 cols in total, draw the first one (make it as group/block - thats what I will do), select the column, ctrl left click and use move to the copied column, say 1000mm apart, then before you finish the job, type *4, then you will have 5 columns equally spaced.
In order to join the column to roof, as for myself, I will just extend each column pass the roof, turn the xray mode on, draw lines to intersection to roof and delete unwanted lines, but am sure there must be an easier way to do that.
Hope thats any help to you. -
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@lilleskut said:
I just started playing around with sketchup and made a house with a gabled roof like here: http://www.et.byu.edu/groups/cmfac/fenn/CM210/notes/Roof%20Systems/roof%20types.jpg .
What I want to achieve now is the following:- make the roof to extend beyond the walls on all sides (overhanging)
- add equally spaced columns at the end of the roof on all four sides of the house. The columns should extend from the ground to the roof and connect to it smoothly.
How do I do this? Another, general question I have is: "How do you create a set of objects equally spaced?" Is there a tutorial explaining this?
Check this out.
Aidan Chopra has a complete set of tuts on YouTube... everything you asked and more!
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sketchup&search=Search
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