Help making empire/mansard style roof curve

[nohsara]

Hi, I am a 2D artist trying to get some experience with 3D and am very new at Sketchup Free (a couple days). I am trying to make an empire/mansard style roof with the corner edges curved inward, and I can’t figure out if there’s a way to curve edges or not. Attached is my in-progress Sketchup file. You can see my 2D concepts I’m trying to replicate on the Google doc I link to below, it won’t let me upload more than one media attachment to this post as a newbie. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Sketchup Help

Pinocchio’s House.skp (198.9 KB)

Edit: to clarify, I’m just going to be using this as a reference for more 2D artwork, so I don’t really care if the 3D geometry is “correct” or usable as a 3D asset as long as it is solid enough for shadows to display properly once it’s all done

[Wo3Dan]

Draw the profile on a rectangular base like in the image below.
Then apply the ‘Follow Me’ tool on 1 and 2 in that order.

Select 1, then the tool and click with the tool on 2

The result will be:

[nohsara]

How do I make a shape like #2 in your image? I can’t figure out how to make anything but rectangles, circles, and other standard polygons. How do I make that curved edge?

[Wo3Dan]

One option would be:

[nohsara]

Ok I’ve got this, how do I detach the part I don’t want? when I select it and hit delete, it deletes the whole rectangle

[Wo3Dan]

You’ve also selected the arc, that is why. It is needed for the face on the left.
Just delete the two edges that are selected.

[nohsara]

Ah thank you!

So I thought I used the follow me tool right, but now I think it’s inside out. I’ve tried to follow tutorials on the follow me tool and I keep struggling with it

[Wo3Dan]

Tripple click on the geometry (to select all connected geometry) and right click on the selection, then select ‘Reverse Faces’ in the context menu.

[nohsara]

Thank you! That worked! But then I also realized my rectangular prism had disappeared from the bottom, so I tried follow me again with that fixed, and it extruded right-side out properly the first time. Thank you so much for you help with this problem!

[Wo3Dan]

Whenever you have a coplanar loop of edges without a face, you can trace one edge to recreate the face again.

[nohsara]

Ah, good to know, I just tested that and it works, thanks!

[nohsara]

I’ve got my roof, thanks again! (I decided I wanted the roof more dramatically curved so I had to scale part of it that’s why I ended up with that line around it)