This article is your guide to moving things around in your 3d model from a simple click and move operation to moving precisely with 3d coordinates.
Moving roof in sketchup.
Smith for an in depth discussion in this video moving around the model part of sketchup for architecture.
Sketchup asks what you d like to do with the tag s contents.
For example a 4 12 pronounced 4 in 12 roof slope rises 4 feet for every 12 feet it runs a 1 12 slope is very shallow and a 12 12 slope is very steep.
Sketchup 2020 has changed some words.
In this case you put a roof on a house.
I drew lines to form two triangles and then joined them with the blue line the ridge line of the roof.
Move to current tag move to default tag or delete contents.
Whatever i do.
After the visible checkbox for the roof tag is deselected the roof becomes hidden.
I m a newbie designing a hypothetical garage apartment.
Floor and roof of the house.
It also shows an alternate method for modeling the same roof using push pull.
I am modelling my house.
How to create a uniform sloped roof in sketchup.
When using the protractor tool sketchup s measurements box understands angles expressed as ratios as well as those expressed in degrees.
Create an odd shaped building.
It looks ok but when i try to move that line it will move in any direction except the up blue axis.
When you re drawing a model in sketchup moving your model or parts of it takes on a third dimension.
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An l shaped building in this.
It s been going ok though a steep learning curve but now i m stuck.
I ve seen this done in several tutorials by drawing a line across the midway point of the building and then using the move tool to move the two roof planes up with that line creating the peak.
The bottom left room has a separate pitched roof pitched in all 4 directions.
This tutorial teaches you how to use the move tool to extrude parts of the model.
Paypal me sketchup this method will allow you quickly model a roof with a fixed pitch by rotating a line with a slope ratio.
