Draw two edges from the top of your vertical line to the corners of your roof.
How to make a gable roof with a pitch sketchup.
This tutorial teaches you how to use the move tool to extrude parts of the model.
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 when using the protractor tool sketchup s measurements box understands angles.
Push pull back your triangular gable.
2 use the protractor tool to create an angled guide at the corner of your roof.
Easily creates roofs with various parameters in sketchup plugin name.
In this case you put a roof on a house.
Erase the vertical edge you drew in step 3 and the guide you drew in step 2.
It also shows an alternate method for modeling the same roof using push pull.
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