Roof Plan Tutorial

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

Roof plan tutorial.

Select edit reset to defaults. In the reset to defaults dialog set the reset scope to all floors check roof directives in walls and click ok. Floor beam span tables of residential structural design we will now look at roof rafter and beam design. Here we have a wood framed gable roof.

Cursor changes to a transparent disc to gauge drawing height. We will determine there length in the next step. Position disc on wall top before drawing. 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. Click and drag from one corner of the wall top to the other. Manually draw in custom roof planes and join them together allowing the program to do the math for you. I use autocad to do this but you can use any 2d drafting package or even pen or penc.

Use the roof directives to automatically generate hip gable shed gambrel gull wing half hip or dutch gable conditions. Let s consider a basic gable wood roof framing design. In this tutorial i will explain how to draw and draft a hip roof plan. Attic walls when a roof is generated attic walls may also be generated.

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. Home designer pro 2020 tutorial guide to reset all roof directives 1. Roof truss plan view drawings. 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.

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. In wireframe drag blue handles to outer wall edges to snap in place. To start drawing in the hipped roof draw lines at 45 degree angles from all the points on the roof as shown in blue. An attic wall fills the space.

But trying to get the profiles to look right can be an exercise in frustration. Create a story and a half structure and place automatic dormers. The internal roof lines are called valleys and the external roof lines are the hips as shown. As you can see the 2 lines to the top left of the image are just drawn in approximately.