Roof Plan Tutorial

Manually draw in custom roof planes and join them together allowing the program to do the math for you.

Roof plan tutorial.

To start drawing in the hipped roof draw lines at 45 degree angles from all the points on the roof as shown in blue. An attic wall fills the space. Create a story and a half structure and place automatic dormers. Roof truss plan view drawings.

Floor beam span tables of residential structural design we will now look at roof rafter and beam design. In the reset to defaults dialog set the reset scope to all floors check roof directives in walls and click ok. 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. Use the roof directives to automatically generate hip gable shed gambrel gull wing half hip or dutch gable conditions.

In wireframe drag blue handles to outer wall edges to snap in place. 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. Continuing on from part 3. Click and drag from one corner of the wall top to the other.

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. Attic walls when a roof is generated attic walls may also be generated. The internal roof lines are called valleys and the external roof lines are the hips as shown. We will determine there length in the next step.

Here we have a wood framed gable roof. Position disc on wall top before drawing. Softplan provides a method of creating specially shaped roofs through the use of roof profiles. 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. Let s consider a basic gable wood roof framing design. Cursor changes to a transparent disc to gauge drawing height. In this tutorial i will explain how to draw and draft a hip roof plan.

This tutorial will show you how to make using roof profiles easy and fun without all the headaches. But trying to get the profiles to look right can be an exercise in frustration. Create a structure to put the roof on. I use autocad to do this but you can use any 2d drafting package or even pen or penc.