Roof Plan Tutorial

The image below shows a cross section of our simple 12 x 13 house from the joist span tables section of this tutorial.

Roof plan tutorial.

Home designer pro 2020 tutorial guide to reset all roof directives 1. An attic wall fills the space. In this tutorial i will explain how to draw and draft a hip roof plan. Create a story and a half structure and place automatic dormers.

Click and drag from one corner of the wall top to the other. Softplan provides a method of creating specially shaped roofs through the use of roof profiles. To start drawing in the hipped roof draw lines at 45 degree angles from all the points on the roof as shown in blue. I use autocad to do this but you can use any 2d drafting package or even pen or penc.

We will determine there length in the next step. Attic walls when a roof is generated attic walls may also be generated. Continuing on from part 3. In the reset to defaults dialog set the reset scope to all floors check roof directives in walls and click ok.

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. But trying to get the profiles to look right can be an exercise in frustration. This tutorial will show you how to make using roof profiles easy and fun without all the headaches. Use the roof directives to automatically generate hip gable shed gambrel gull wing half hip or dutch gable conditions.

Select edit reset to defaults. It is important to identify the load bearing walls on which the roof trusses will be supported in the following plan view drawings all load bearing walls are shown shaded. Cursor changes to a transparent disc to gauge drawing height. In wireframe drag blue handles to outer wall edges to snap in place.

Create a structure to put the roof on. 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. As you can see the 2 lines to the top left of the image are just drawn in approximately. Let s consider a basic gable wood roof framing design.

Roof truss plan view drawings. Manually draw in custom roof planes and join them together allowing the program to do the math for you. Floor beam span tables of residential structural design we will now look at roof rafter and beam design. 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.