Roof Plan Tutorial

Continuing on from part 3.

Roof plan tutorial.

Select edit reset to defaults. In wireframe drag blue handles to outer wall edges to snap in place. Floor beam span tables of residential structural design we will now look at roof rafter and beam design. Create a structure to put the roof on.

This tutorial will show you how to make using roof profiles easy and fun without all the headaches. In this tutorial i will explain how to draw and draft a hip roof plan. The image below shows a cross section of our simple 12 x 13 house from the joist span tables section of this tutorial. Attic walls when a roof is generated attic walls may also be generated.

Create a story and a half structure and place automatic dormers. We will determine there length in the next step. 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.

Here we have a wood framed gable roof. 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. 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.

Let s consider a basic gable wood roof framing design. 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. In the reset to defaults dialog set the reset scope to all floors check roof directives in walls and click ok. Roof truss plan view drawings.

An attic wall fills the space. Position disc on wall top before drawing. But trying to get the profiles to look right can be an exercise in frustration. Softplan provides a method of creating specially shaped roofs through the use of roof profiles.

I use autocad to do this but you can use any 2d drafting package or even pen or penc. Manually draw in custom roof planes and join them together allowing the program to do the math for you. Cursor changes to a transparent disc to gauge drawing height. Home designer pro 2020 tutorial guide to reset all roof directives 1.