How To Draw Roof Rafters In Sketchup Without Housbuilder Plugin

How to figure rafters in the field or draw them in sketchup duration.

How to draw roof rafters in sketchup without housbuilder plugin.

Everything s right there in the plugins menu so you don t have to memorize and keep track of a bunch of little tool icons. Complicated roof trusses are surprisingly simple to draw with sketchup using methods explained in this tutorial which is the last of the how to draw lumber. Continuing the shed project in sketchup i show how to calculate the length of rafters in the field and also draw them. Download house builder here download 1001bit tools here.

Cutting rafters for the whole roof and then some. With guidelines in place the line tool gives the rafter shape. The input method for telling the script where to put gables and sheds couldn t be simpler. Then a few strategic keystrokes make the layout plane disappear and the board stretcher tool gives us a rafter pattern or component.

In today s video we re going to use a pair of extensions to create a wood framed house model in sketchup. Drawing lumber with sketchup series part 8 how to draw roof trusses duration. Sketchup plug in 1001bit tools automatically to create ridge rafters and battens purlins sketchup vray pro plug in to draw roof fast in sketcup. Drawing them first will help understan.

Rafter layout without a framing square.