Modeling 9 Different Types of Roofs in SketchUp - SketchUp Quick Tutorials

In this tutorial, learn how to model several different kinds of roofs in SketchUp. There are several different strategies for how to model these kinds of roofs, including using the push pull and offset tools, using the follow me tool to extrude your roof around the perimeter, and using the rotate tool to copy and create new geometry.
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[@sarahmai8119]

You just saved me from a mental breakdown 😭😭

[@garycrockett4477]

Wow! Incredible - the ease of how you created all those different types of roofs. Amazing!

[@PaulineFerguson]

Awesome, that was a MUCH quicker way than I was thinking of doing it!!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad I could help!

[@svnelliejowestsail3222]

Just found your channel. What a gold mine of information! Thanks for creating these.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks - glad you're liking it!

[@yellowishyoutubechannel3900]

Thank You🙏🙏

[@paulblackwood1273]

Very cool. I was struggling with roof. I love the follow me tool to create complex roofs.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@paulblackwood1273]

@@Thesketchupessentials what is the best way to add thickness to a complex hip roof shape? Select all faces and copy up? Push/pull each face?

[@Andrea-jl6jg]

thank you so much for this tips, you didn't know how you saved me from getting emotional breakdown. I've been good doing hip roof during my first year manual drafting but today, i'm in junior year, yet i forgot how it works. it's so frustrating and i cant believe i actually forgot how to do it. thanks for helping me. have a wonderful life sir

[@arqMyriamBM]

Thank you for this video, I was just practicing roofs for hours until I've found this :) One item though is the ceiling resolution if part of it is cathedral and part not. If you have a tip please let us know. Best,

[@shaunab2735]

Your channel is SO WONDERFUL!! 🙏

[@perryolin892]

thanks for your videos they are the easiest to understand

[@hellya2666]

You saved my life on this one!!!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Awesome!

[@openhand7502]

Great, quick, well explained lesson. Thanks so much! I'm working out a roof problem for a customer and trying to learn sketchup at the same time. I think I'll run this lesson daily until it becomes second nature.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Lol - if that helps :)

[@stephencurry1946]

Thank you I needed this for school 😊

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad I could help!

[@herculesespiritu2372]

Thank you for your complete and comprehensive training. Very good!

[@zionekathleenesic486]

Thank you! It helped a lot.

[@emiliebeauchamp2077]

Exactly what I was looking for to initiate myself to roof drawing! Thank you!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@DarkMoonDroid]

Also, I saw someone do a neat trick for complex roofs where you find all the center lines, then make 45d angles at each corner, then select all the center lines and lift using "Move" the "Up Arrow". It makes perfect hips no matter what the width or ratios. You could even make a rectangle in the middle instead of a midline and make the top flat for doing other things. Does that make sense?

[@michelevitarelli]

Thank you. Perfect tutorial.

[@arnemunk]

I liked this video and learned a lot

[@kathlenewang539]

This was so helpful. Thank you so much.

[@stormsergeant6517]

Helpful beyond belief.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@DiEdraStinson]

You ARE the man, Justin!! Thank you!! 💜

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks! :)

[@sftimecap]

Cool tut; simple, straight ahead, clear, gracias amigo!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad it helped!

[@russellschundler6559]

Great video. If I repeat this about 10 times, I expect to really learn some of the subtle processes ... and maybe generalize some of the concepts. Thanks for making a great work/learn project!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks very much for watching!

[@pranalidalvi8916]

thank you so much.... Grateful.... It helped me alot

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad it helped!

[@aadityadesai9564]

Great tutorial work, keep it up !

[@javamochafrap]

Can you do a video on a basic portico over one door with 2 or 4 columns with a 30 or 45 degree roof. Thx

[@thanmyowin115]

Thank you Sir

[@muhibahmed8968]

thank you so much for this video. I got to learn a lot of essential stuffs.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@markvallarino2847]

Awesome tutorial. Really helps modeling my cabin with multiple pitch's (like my cabin). Break it down to roof by roof

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad you liked it!

[@ArchiLightenment-Studio]

Thanks bro❤

[@DariusBlender]

Thanks. Very informative and helpful video.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Awesome - glad you enjoyed it :)

[@clarkderks-wyatt2471]

Amen for this video. Look back at this still in 2020. Still hate the intro though

[@ashikks6546]

thank you

[@Lacarken]

Thanks for sharing! 😊

[@vantongerent]

Nice video! could you also pleas show how to model a clerestory roof? Thanks!

[@cathy4367]

Thank youuu! ♥️♥️♥️

[@akshayramkrishnan7854]

NICE ONE❣

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks 🔥

[@gc1650]

Thank you much for this refresher.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks for watching :)

[@rls1160]

Awesome Justin, How do we draw a sloped shed type roof

[@cvekelis]

I liked this video! thanks!

[@prathyusha6130]

a great tutorial thanks much

[@md.bulbulislam5373]

Wow interesting tutorial!

[@DarkMoonDroid]

10:38 I made a hexagonal Pagoda roof the other day. Man! That was hard! It's still not perfect, but at least now I know how to do it. You'd prolly enjoy the challenge too!

[@r.i.4259]

Top man, thanks for sharing.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

No problem 👍

[@thalassophileph7749]

Thank You so much for this!

[@akungg1043]

Smart tutorials, thanks alot

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks for watching!

[@yuririchardson4250]

Great content! What about doing a gable on one end and hip on the other end of a simple rectangle? Thanks!

[@edgeuk8]

New Subscriber, great content! I'd like to see these same roofs drawn using alternate methods than the ones shown here. If you could help to expand our approach thoughts?

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Why do you want alternate methods?

[@ntandoyenkosindabezitha1222]

Thank you 🙏

[@ethnicflightsim]

Thanks very much for your help :)

[@Thesketchupessentials]

No worries!

[@georgipenye]

very very thank you

[@melh1030]

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

:)

[@siphiwekheswa9785]

Interesting I was hoping to see butterfly roof but I understand how you would get to it with the tutorials.is there any way I can find how roof edges are constructed

[@tamilmani9135]

nice video's sir

[@muhammednihal9666]

thank you very much from india

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Most welcome!

[@ayushijain2273]

please could explain how to put material to these roofs and give a releatistic effect.

[@jessicadance8698]

All your tutorials are really helpful! do you have any tutorials showing how to model a sloped roof with velux windows? (this is for an interior model) thanks!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

No, but you'd really just model it the same way you'd model a window in a wall

[@hellnah8885]

thank you justin

[@Thesketchupessentials]

:)

[@alenakarle7318]

Thank you!!!

[@faizanamein5439]

Thnx sir

[@user-qo2xj8wf6f]

fantastic info

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@governorswalk9521]

Hi, I'm wondering if you could do a shed roof where the slope is on the diagonal, i.e. all four corners are at different heights from the base. Thanks for all your videos, have watched many many of them

[@Thesketchupessentials]

I'm having trouble visualizing what you're trying to do

[@duerf5826]

Can you further explain the "Follow me" tool? Conceptually I still don't quite understand how it works. How would I manipulate it in such a way that it would accommodate my specific dimensions?

[@Thesketchupessentials]

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[@tomaszwiatr781]

Justin Geis - learning machine :)

[@WhoIsGodReally]

Hi Justin, i need to ask you a question regarding roofs. Can email you?

[@feminafemina9235]

Fentastic sir 🥰

[@jolantalinde5274]

Is there a quick way to draw a half hip roof where it is a gable for part way up and the a hip for the last part? Your video is very helpful!!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

I'm having a little trouble visualizing what you're trying to achieve - do you have an image?

[@vamandilshad2752]

How did you use scale tool for rotate perpose at 8 min?

[@ericphan5857]

Negative roof can generate water at night time and it called sky well in recent architecture I'm Vietnam where they try the water technology

[@n4zr4y]

Hello, how do you use automatic shape for followme button. I cannot do it properly becoz i will draw manually

[@user-dh8tj1tk4n]

Thank you!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

😎

[@alejandroizaguirre1937]

great vid! thanks!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks for watching!

[@victoriamba4943]

Wow I love this it is very fun. But sadly, I only did 7 out of 9 because I didn't really understand the six sided circle stuff. 😞😞

[@monicaraygada]

Hi! I'm struggling terribly to create a hip and valley roof with multiple volumes, How can I get help???

[@Jagger82]

Hi. How do i use this technique but on multiple levels?

[@HiroshiMuta]

I know this video was 4 years ago but tysm I needed to make a roof for a house for a school project

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Still glad it helped 😎

[@andrejadzemi699]

thank u so much!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad you liked it!

[@c.r.8c.r.828]

wow kilin it !

[@childsy4]

The top lines of the internal walls are showing through and the follow me function does not work correctly because of this. Even if I hide the lines from the top layer (internal roof) this does not seem to work. Any ideas?

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Sounds like maybe you have an Xray style on? kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHLYqHmQbq-LaK8

[@ceriousx]

How to install the extension

[@du_rolandlaus3706]

THANKS BRO..

[@Thesketchupessentials]

😎

[@magdalenaglassberg8589]

Hi Justin I got a blueprint and the roof I have different levels how u do that!!??

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Model 1 level at a time? Then intersect your faces with model and delete out the extra?

[@mae2309]

Great!!! Thanks

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks!

[@susanstocker7100]

How about modeling a roof when you have a specific pitch?

[@Thesketchupessentials]

I believe you can set the slope with the extension

[@mr.malumaat9247]

you!

[@monicazam5242]

Thanks !!!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks for watching!

[@jonhernandez5499]

cool !

[@Thesketchupessentials]

😎

[@geralda.miraldi3535]

Show us how to create a dormer.

[@blacksky4540]

Appears the default is the distorted app wNice tutorialch softed terrible.

[@ericshively7864]

try roofs from 1001 bit freeware( also the tools it has)!!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Roof by TIG is a great extension for this too

[@salampaliyath6717]

How can I download windows and doors ? Can you please tel me

[@Thesketchupessentials]

3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/

[@arayahomes4308]

None of the overhangs in this tutorial represent real world roof overhang design. It's a fair bit more complicated to make proper hip and valley roofs and in which order it should be done by (gable roofs, small roofs, largest ones first, etc). Would be great to create a tutorial that shows how a roof is really designed for the real world. The overhangs in a roof are supposed to go past and below the wall height.

[@edgeuk8]

so draw lines farther down and extrude

[@andrejadzemi699]

if someone can help me i have a problem with offset it doesnt fill with colour

[@Thesketchupessentials]

You mean there's no face? Draw over one of the edges and see if it heals a face in there

[@ericphan5857]

Strange thing about roof design, mostly they are the same unless you travel and see Russian and Vietnam and some Egyptian then we see variety of roof design and most of them are positive geometry or flat but rarely negative roof which is like imbalance

[@johncarey9149]

One criticism for you, but hopefully it's a constructive one. All of the roof types you are modelling are just "drawn", however in the real world, I want to draw to specified dimensions and angles. So, how about including some explanation of how you would draw a roof with a specified roof pitch?

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Fair point - obviously, first of all, it depends on the kind of roof you want to draw. Once I decide on that, I'd probably draw a rectangle that could act as a "canvas" to design my roof slope on, then use the protractor tool to draw the appropriate angles, then trace over that with the line tool. I'd still use the strategies in this video to model the actual roof geometry though. Thanks for the feedback!

[@johncarey9149]

Thanks for that. I'll give it a try using the protractor tool. However, as you say, the basic strategies are the identical to what you've demonstrated, once you've decided on the actual geometry you want to use.

[@medeekdesign]

This is why we create plugins, who wants to do all this work just to create a roof. If you want it exactly as you are going to build it with proper overhangs, rakeboards, fascia and the correct pitch I would suggest using a plugin to do that.

[@aramis441]

I use Sketchup Make and I don't find all the tools that you are using.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Try going up to "View," then selecting "Toolbars" and checking the box for the "Large Tool Set"

[@mastermongc6929]

👍 👍

[@CazHbokbok]

Hipped roof wha?

[@patadmin2056]

tyam