Roof Plan Tutorial

Softplan provides a method of creating specially shaped roofs through the use of roof profiles.

Roof plan tutorial.

The internal roof lines are called valleys and the external roof lines are the hips as shown. 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. Create a structure to put the roof on. Position disc on wall top before drawing.

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. 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. In wireframe drag blue handles to outer wall edges to snap in place.

Manually draw in custom roof planes and join them together allowing the program to do the math for you. Create a story and a half structure and place automatic dormers. Use the roof directives to automatically generate hip gable shed gambrel gull wing half hip or dutch gable conditions. Cursor changes to a transparent disc to gauge drawing height.

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. Floor beam span tables of residential structural design we will now look at roof rafter and beam design. Attic walls when a roof is generated attic walls may also be generated.

I use autocad to do this but you can use any 2d drafting package or even pen or penc. Home designer pro 2020 tutorial guide to reset all roof directives 1. Here we have a wood framed gable roof. 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. This tutorial will show you how to make using roof profiles easy and fun without all the headaches. Select edit reset to defaults. We will determine there length in the next step.

An attic wall fills the space. Roof truss plan view drawings. To start drawing in the hipped roof draw lines at 45 degree angles from all the points on the roof as shown in blue. Let s consider a basic gable wood roof framing design.