Create simple and complex hip rafter roofs with Medeek Truss Plugin

This is an exclusive sketchup tutorial focused on Medeek Truss Plugin. The tutorial shows how to use Medeek Truss Plugin for creating simple and complicated hip rafter roofs.

 

This sketchup plugin operates to generate perfect 3D truss geometry inside sketchup. Nathaniel P. Wilkerson is the developer of Medeek Truss Plugin for sketchup and it supports SketchUp 6, SketchUp 7, SketchUp 8, SketchUp 2013, SketchUp 2014, SketchUp 2015, SketchUp 2016.

Presently, the plugin can generate the following common truss types (Metric and US/Imperial):

 

• King Post (2/2) [with gable end option]
• Queen Post (4/2) [with gable end option]
• Fink (4/3) [with gable end and raised/energy heel options]
• Howe (4/4) [with gable end option]
• Fan (6/3) [with gable end option]
• Mod Queen (6/4) [with gable end option]
• Double Fink (6/5) [with gable end option]

 

With this sketchup plugin, the users will be able to produce a series of trusses by just choosing three points liable for creating the bounding rectangle (bldg. width x bldg. length) of the truss array. The number of trusses is automatically measured on the basis of the on center spacing and the building length.

With advanced options, it becomes easier to form sheathing, rake boards, fascia, blocking and outlookers. These options are presently accessible with the following truss types: Common, Attic, Monopitch, Scissor and Floor; and for the following rafter roofs: Gable, Gable with GLB and TJI with GLB.

 

With the Medeek Truss Plugin, the users can generate perfect drawing of the typical roof trusses inside SketchUp and authenticate all the architectural models.

 

 

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