Roof Plan Tutorial

Here we have a wood framed gable roof.

Roof plan tutorial.

The first step is always to lay out the roof over the main portion of the building and then to proceed with the roofing of the projecting portions or wings. Continuing on from part 3. Position disc on wall top before drawing. In wireframe drag blue handles to outer wall edges to snap in place.

Roof truss plan view drawings. This tutorial will show you how to make using roof profiles easy and fun without all the headaches. Create a story and a half structure and place automatic dormers. The same method of procedure may be followed out in the case of any roof plan and the final complete plan obtained by successive steps as explained above.

We will determine there length in the next step. Click and drag from one corner of the wall top to the other. Use the roof directives to automatically generate hip gable shed gambrel gull wing half hip or dutch gable conditions. As you can see the 2 lines to the top left of the image are just drawn in approximately.

Home designer pro 2020 tutorial guide to reset all roof directives 1. Softplan provides a method of creating specially shaped roofs through the use of roof profiles. Create a structure to put the roof on. Let s consider a basic gable wood roof framing design.

To start drawing in the hipped roof draw lines at 45 degree angles from all the points on the roof as shown in blue. Select edit reset to defaults. Cursor changes to a transparent disc to gauge drawing height. The roof lines ridgelines hip lines valley lines gable and eaves overhang lines at the ends of building sections and at junctions provide information regarding the required shape of the roof.

In the reset to defaults dialog set the reset scope to all floors check roof directives in walls and click ok. The image below shows a cross section of our simple 12 x 13 house from the joist span tables section of this tutorial. Manually draw in custom roof planes and join them together allowing the program to do the math for you. An attic wall fills the space.

The internal roof lines are called valleys and the external roof lines are the hips as shown. I use autocad to do this but you can use any 2d drafting package or even pen or penc. In this tutorial i will explain how to draw and draft a hip roof plan. But trying to get the profiles to look right can be an exercise in frustration.