First you need to create eaves.
How to make a simple house with roof in sketchup.
This will extrude your house at the height you entered.
Now that we have our house shape we re going to add slope to our roof.
The goal is a single face that you can offset.
Get the house at the angle seen in pic 3 and pull the triangle out with the push pull tool.
Pull it to the other side of your house.
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If the point isn t in the center move it using the move tool step 3.
In this tutorial i go over how to make a simple house introducing the offset and follow me tools.
Easily creates roofs with various parameters in sketchup plugin name.
Draw a triangle on top of the side facing you.
Bigger houses with more compl.
Learn how to build a roof and add details with basic skills in sketchup.
This is a pretty basic roof.
In this video i go over how i create the roofs for my models.
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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.
Get an above view of your house.
This video is part 2 in the series.
Use the line tool to create an outline of the parts of your roof that will have eaves of the same height.
This video features the push pull move and offset tool.