Make a group out of your whole building before you start modeling the roof.
How to make a simple house with roof in sketchup.
In this tutorial i go over how to make a simple house introducing the offset and follow me tools.
In this video i go over how i create the roofs for my models.
Get your house in the angle of picture 1.
Learn how to build a roof and add details with basic skills in sketchup.
First you need to create eaves.
This video features the push pull move and offset tool.
The goal is a single face that you can offset.
If the point isn t in the center move it using the move tool step 3.
I also explain inferencing a little better and show you ho.
Bigger houses with more compl.
Get the house at the angle seen in pic 3 and pull the triangle out with the push pull tool.
Draw a triangle on top of the side facing you.
This is a pretty basic roof.
This will extrude your house at the height you entered.
Get an above view of your house.
Pull it to the other side of your house.
To do this activate the push pull tool by tapping the p key click once on the face of your house then type in the height you d like to see and hit the enter key.
Use the line tool to create an outline of the parts of your roof that will have eaves of the same height.
This video is part 2 in the series.
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