How To Draw A Roof Line

To draw something parallel to the roof line of the house the tops of windows for example draw a line from the front corner of the building to each of the two vanishing points.

How to draw a roof line.

If your gabled roof extends all the way to the other end of your building push pull it back that far. Draw two edges from the top of your vertical line to the corners of your roof. A roof plan is a view from the top of the house that shows the geometry in flat view of a roof. Drawing a roof plan isn t a difficult task if you already have a grasp of basic drafting.

This finishes of the roof line. The roof plan is sometimes overlooked on some plans but it is a very important feature to a complete set of plans. Cursor changes to a transparent disc to gauge drawing height. Step 11 draw a vertical line thru the center of the x and draw the front one as high as you want the roof to be.

Create a structure to put the roof on. Erase the vertical edge you drew in step 3 and the guide you drew in step 2. Now you have a roof. The other 2 lines the horizontal and vertical line are there to make an imaginary box.

Step 12 draw a line from the front vertical line to the right vanishing point. Push pull back your triangular gable. In this step i have drawn in some dashed lines. The 3d drawing also differs very slightly from the line drawings including a false hip connecting the front porch to the bedroom hip to its right and some false roofs over the unseen shed roof and how the garage roof connects to the main roof and lack of crickets.

This shows the correct angle for other lines parallel to the top and bottom of the building. Now we can draw in the ridge lines as shown. Odd roof types dormers. To finish the roof draw a line from the peak of the roof down to the top corner of the back edge of the wall.

Click and drag from one corner of the wall top to the other. This a a simple example of how to build a roof line or any other inclined plane when using two point perspective. Position disc on wall top before drawing. Step 13 now draw a letter v using the top of the vertical line to the top 2 corners of each square.

You can take this a step further and build multiple roof lines on.