How To Draw A Gable Roof

A dutch hip roof sometimes called a dutch gable roof is a combination of hip and gable roof styles in which a gable is located at the end of the ridge at the top of a hip roof plane.

How to draw a gable roof.

You can create a gable on an existing roof by gripping any ridge line point and stretching it past the roof edge. Use this procedure to add a gable roof that has the properties specified in the roof tool that you select. You can specify a slope for the gable ends to create a hip. To create a gable roof select build wall straight exterior wall and draw four connecting walls to form an enclosed area.

Again a simple rectangle is used in this example. You can create a single sloped roof and set each edge to gable as needed. Draw two edges from the top of your vertical line to the corners of your roof. Viewing a gable roof end note.

Click on the ridge edge of the lower roof plane to select it. To build your gable roof you ll need wooden boards cut into joists rafters supports and a ridge board in addition to sheathing felt paper and shingles. If your gabled roof extends all the way to the other end of your building push pull it back that far. A step by step lesson on how to draw a gable roof house using 2 point perspective.

Follow the steps described in step 3 above to create two roof planes on opposite sides of the building. Erase the vertical edge you drew in step 3 and the guide you drew in step 2. A gable roof is a simple symmetrical triangular roof.