How To Make A Simple House With Roof In Sketchup

This video is part 2 in the series.

How to make a simple house with roof in sketchup.

Learn how to build a roof and add details with basic skills in sketchup. Bigger houses with more compl. This video features the push pull move and offset tool. I also explain inferencing a little better and show you ho.

In this tutorial i go over how to make a simple house introducing the offset and follow me tools. This will extrude your house at the height you entered. The goal is a single face that you can offset. Get the house at the angle seen in pic 3 and pull the triangle out with the push pull tool.

First you need to create eaves. Check out our other tutorials at http tara. Get an above view of your house. Draw a triangle on top of the side facing you.

Use the line tool to create an outline of the parts of your roof that will have eaves of the same height. Watch this tutorial to find out how to make a basic roof in google sketchup the easy to use 3d modelling tool. To do this activate the push pull tool by tapping the p key click once on the face of your house then type in the height you d like to see and hit the enter key. Pull it to the other side of your house.

If the point isn t in the center move it using the move tool step 3. This is a pretty basic roof. Now that we have our house shape we re going to add slope to our roof. Make a group out of your whole building before you start modeling the roof.