Draftsmen, help a brother out!

[POC]

I haven't drawn on a board in a long time. I'm putting a porch on the front of the house this summer and can't for the life of me remember how to draw the plan view of the roof. I know it is seen foreshortened in the top view, and there is a way to draw a line....parallel to the roof and....I can't remember what to do next!! I want to get the roof so I can actually measure it out, and place rafters, etc.....

 

[CountryBoy19]

I got all excited to help a brother out... and then realized that you wanted an architectural draftman. I'm a mechanical engineer and very good at mechanical drafting, but my architectural drafting would look like a 5 year old did it.

 

[POC]

Most of what I did was mechanical or electrical (puke!). All on the computer. I can't remember this, it is driving me crazy!!

 

[phylodog]

Would Google Sketchup work? It seems fairly easy to work with.

 

[POC]

Not messed much with Sketchup....I have it on this computer though. Maybe I'll give that a try....
Thanks

 

[jblomenberg16]

Say more of what you are needing...you should be able to do the basic front and top views, and the use 3rd angle projection for the side.

 

[Bucky623]

Are you wanting to figure the number of rafters it takes or find the length of the rafters? I’m not sure I fallow.

~Bucky~



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[POC]

I went into storage and found my Descriptive Geometry book. Got the answer I needed.
I had my "3 views", I was wanting to see the actual plan view of the angled porch roof. I see now that it wasn't that hard to do. But I found some errors in my drawings....so I'm going to start over.

 

[jblomenberg16]

Gotcha...sounds like you got it figured out. Now, post some pics!

 

[POC]

I worked on it lastnight on Sketchup. I got the house put in, but that is the easy part, it's already here. I had the floor just about done, will work on the roof system tonight.