Constructability modeling with SketchUp: Roof modeling 

Thanks for the video. It's very helpful to see different ways of modeling a form that is a part of virtually every model I make.

Nice video Aaron, simple example of a real world roof

Once again - very clean & simple!

Perfect timing 👍🏻 thanks Aaron

Also thanks for explaining entering the roof slope as an number over 12. I figured it was doable but could never figure it out.

Great video thank you, well presented and easy to understand.

this answered my question about setting roof slope. thank you very much.

Thanks that was a great way for roofing. I would just add, that in real modeling everything is in groups or components so deleting extra geometries after tracing the roofs intersection would be much easier and efficient as we can use "Hide Rest of Model" command.

Roof pitch (6:12). Now that is handy. Thank you!

Good stuff as always. I had no idea one could input a slope instead of an angle.

I have never seen a tutorial where roof pitch was typed in when using the protractor or rotate. That is a new one, and one methinks I shall be adopting. Most folks have converted pitches to angles, but sure is nice to know we can just type pitches in. Thanks!

Thank you, that was a good video. I also had no idea that you could input slopes like that.

Really nice and really easy.

Very nice Aaron. BTW loved the steam engine modeling!!

Great thanks I liked how simple you made that

wow simple and straight forward i like this

HELPFUL , Thanks !

That was great!

Great tutorial!

really love you videos, it will be nice if you can do a video doing a deck with stairs

Nice video. I never knew about that 6 : 12 trick! One question:Why didn't you use intersect with model or intersect with selection to create the intersection lines between the two roofs, instead of manually drawing those lines?

Super Cool! Thank you!!

Here's an idea for a video. Take the roof formation to the next step and model the overhangs - eaves, fascias, soffits, rakes, frieze board, etc. This is where I spend TOO much time! I'd like to see some ways to model a simple boxed eave return like you would expect to see on a real colonial home.

Very helpful.

Very nice, thanks

More ways to do compound shapes would be great 😊

You just save a freshman today thanks

At first I thought this was going to be over complicated but after a while I saw it was a quick way of roofing.

Thanks !

It's a cool basics

Select the wall component and the roofs. Intersect selected > isolate roof > delete extra faces only > plugin to clean stray lines > unhide walls.. Boom, quick and easy with custom shortcuts.

I d like to see other forms

thanks a lot,Sir! i know how to draw the roof for this video.

Very easy to add 1/2” plywood roof sheathing to your 5 1/2” joist to make it a nice round 6 inches depth!

great for modeling the exterior shape, but I seem to be unable to push/pull windows through the gable end (to make a penetration), they just push out the other end. Is that because the faces of this roof lack any thickness? Any quick ways to remedy this?

Hi Rotating lines by slope seems great, but for some reason my desire slope does not rotate to the correct input. For exmaple I will rotate line to a 6:12 slope, but angle look more like a 12:12 slope. Most likely user error. Any chance you can shed light on this Aaron.

What would be the correct way in sketchup to keep the roof and main house separate? I've only used Sketchup for single 3d printable items. Do you make groups, componenets, layers? If for example I model my house and I want to hide just the roof later to see inside. Should I make everything that's part of the roof a component?

The most useful video idea for me would be troubleshooting. I'll get halfway through a model of something and find there is some silly error where 2 out of 4 holes (screw holes in a 3d printable model for example) are no longer selectable and now part of the plane. I've never figured out how to troubleshoot things of that nature and fix them. It's always start all over.

This is not working for me. I have each external wall in a group as you showed in a Walls video. I clink on the corner and draw the vertical line, then the horizontal line. Then use Rotate but when I angle up the vertical line bends. Is the grouping the problem?

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Good quick way to get the roof mass, etc. without a lot of extra commands. K.I.S.S.

Hi there Can you suggest a device as a replacement for the mouse.

Hope there is a command "Extend".

Hi. When trying to rotate the triangle I drag the rest of the geometry with me, not just the triangle. What am I doing wrong? Thank you

Please demonstrate jerkinhead roof - thank you

I'd like to see an A-Frame roof w/no overhangs made from palm leaf (grass type - roof material) attached to a (3) poles per leg "Bamboo framing (inner structure".) to attach the roof structure to - beginning (20') above the ((ground floor & running to the peak (40' above "ground") - (which (of which the ground floor) is actually real Earth type ground for planting food plants in)) & I'd like "greenhouse / shade house covering" as covering for the walls from ground to (20') up. And (2) (sized appropriate for location) decks made of bamboo (1) at (20') up (second floor deck.) And (1) at 29 feet =(3rd floor) up from the ground level - which is actually "GROUND." = "the" food garden "floor") - making a total of (2) decks on each end =(4) decks total. & on the triangular window ends separating interior from the decks w/bamboo window frames & all glass separation to the living space (2nd) & (3rd) floors of The Greenhouse\home - which is (to a higher degree than standard) more Earthquake flood and extreme weather resistant. than your average home - more specifically designed to be touted as the best tool "type home" utilized for the practice of practicing permaculture principles - in order to correct what the practice of capitalism's mass practice of generating excessive personal wealth is doing to deplete and over toxify & over consume the natural (predominantly "used-to-be" free-of-charge) provisions systems. But is now just a way to get a way cool (very covetable) - life style of converting all used to be free-of-charge things of the natural world - into Man made (money made THINGS) of excessive convenience - at the expense of the once-up-on a- time "simple life" supporting nature of the Earth it's self - accelerating the fast approaching extinction of a fellow humanity of drone slave workers "obliviously guided by money empowered (over complicated) science" - helping ourselves to rid ourselves from further interfering with the natural balance - which used to be able to sustain life - on a beautiful natural free-of-charge provision systems supplied Earth - until the masses of money making mankind "ran amok" to the (over complicated by money making) end of the nature - of naturally supporting humanity on Earth. "ALL FOR THE MONEY". Is it too late - we better start building these GreenHouse\Homes but fast - with which - to help each other have enough predominantly Free-of-charge food and shelter materials - while nurturing the natural back to health. Or we can finish our little science project to the end result. "Sooner than might need be". Because everything in the natural world has a shelf life "or an extinction day" - (just ask money empowered science) - They Know. (at least approximately)

How can I make roof to an irregular rectangle?

Hi What is the modify key option. I'm using windows 10 and sketchup pro 2021

is there any tools free to download without asking your email address or something else, coz there is tools i need to download and yet so many asking and adds, some kind of irritated.

Great video, but… no gable overhang?

But how do you do this with rafters 😞

select face - intersect with model - done.

Is there such a thing as a Sketch-up keyboard?

they gonna link it to the youtube and when you watch it is helpful tools and even say you can download this tools for free, and when look into it in internet asking so many information about yourself.

couldn't you just use auto instersecting tool to make those lines for you here 7:15?

I am not good with plugins I like tutorials on all of it, not just roofs ---Victorian roofs, tiki hut thatched

Or just download the roofs plugin and save yourself literally hours of time.

One tip: Keep that mic a little far away. Don't hide your face.