Make a group out of your whole building before you start modeling the roof.
How to make a simple house with roof in sketchup.
Get your house in the angle of picture 1.
The goal is a single face that you can offset.
Use the line tool to create an outline of the parts of your roof that will have eaves of the same height.
Watch this tutorial to find out how to make a basic roof in google sketchup the easy to use 3d modelling tool.
Draw a triangle on top of the side facing you.
Now that we have our house shape we re going to add slope to our roof.
This video features the push pull move and offset tool.
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.
In this video i go over how i create the roofs for my models.
This is a pretty basic roof.
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.
Bigger houses with more compl.
First you need to create eaves.
Get an above view of your house.
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This video is part 2 in the series.
In this tutorial i go over how to make a simple house introducing the offset and follow me tools.
I also explain inferencing a little better and show you ho.
If the point isn t in the center move it using the move tool step 3.