Roof Plan Tutorial

Roof truss plan view drawings.

Roof plan tutorial.

But trying to get the profiles to look right can be an exercise in frustration. In the reset to defaults dialog set the reset scope to all floors check roof directives in walls and click ok. Position disc on wall top before drawing. 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.

Let s consider a basic gable wood roof framing design. I use autocad to do this but you can use any 2d drafting package or even pen or penc. In wireframe drag blue handles to outer wall edges to snap in place. Here we have a wood framed gable roof.

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. Click and drag from one corner of the wall top to the other. In this tutorial i will explain how to draw and draft a hip roof plan.

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. Create a story and a half structure and place automatic dormers. As you can see the 2 lines to the top left of the image are just drawn in approximately. 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. 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. The image below shows a cross section of our simple 12 x 13 house from the joist span tables section of this tutorial. Continuing on from part 3.

Select edit reset to defaults. This tutorial will show you how to make using roof profiles easy and fun without all the headaches. Manually draw in custom roof planes and join them together allowing the program to do the math for you. Softplan provides a method of creating specially shaped roofs through the use of roof profiles.

Create a structure to put the roof on. An attic wall fills the space. Use the roof directives to automatically generate hip gable shed gambrel gull wing half hip or dutch gable conditions. Attic walls when a roof is generated attic walls may also be generated.