Looking for someone with sketchup or similar experience who wants to 3d draw my coop! or general coo

[efalls]

I have the whole design in my head and I am looking for someone who could turn it into one of those awesome 3d cad drawing with the colors and everything it does not have to be TOO detailed I just want something nice so when i get my friends and family to help me build, we all have the same picture in our head. As soon as anyone shows interest in doing this for me I will start describing the best I can. Simple A-frame design. I would think an experienced person could do it in an hour... if your time is worth a few bucks maybe I need to be ready to offer that.

Thanks you!

 

[Panorama]

Hello,

I can do a sketchup for you, I have to practice a bit anyway before designing my own coop on sketchup. Go ahead and post the details here and I'll probably start on it this evening.

Panorama

 

[jbher]

I have been designing and building my coop in SketchUp. It's a lot of fun, albeit a lot of work also. I would say that as easy as it may appear - it takes hours upon hours. I would totally be willing to help out with a design but it's definitely not something that is easily thrown together.

 

[tn-chickie]

did you find someone to do it we have autocad here

 

[efalls]

@jbher you right I tried downloading the program and was completely dumbfounded. It is one of those things that I am sure if you are experienced, a coop is a pretty simple idea. one company from craiglist offered Home style blueprints and said it would take him "a few hours" to do a coop. Man, I wish I could just figure out how to make the simple A frame in sketchup haha. I will start another reply with details of my design and if anyone thinks it would be fun to draw or help out with, that would be sweet, if not no big deal!

Thanks everyone! This is a great site!

 

[efalls]

I have a lot of free materials I have gathered to build the coop, so my dimensions will not be very standard. I was given what I thought was 16' 2x4 but ended up ALL being different sizes from 14.5 to 16'

The coop will be A-frame type. two pieces.

A-frame style. 8'6" wide at base and the side walls being 7'8" tall. The structure will be 16' long with "studs" every 32" (maybe leave one at the end around 40" wide for a door?)

I have already erected two walls. header, footer, and studs 32" OC all 2x4 construction. beams are 7'8" tall with 2x4 header footer (7'11" total?) by 16' long. I plan to tip the two walls into each other at a center point. use cross beans up high to connect the studs like rafters, but maybe 6" from the top. Then I will put my Cross beams on the floor holding the bottom at 8'6" wide (max width for towing, as I am homesteading on rented land currently.)

once the two 16' long A frames are constructed, one bill be a coop and one will be a run (32' when connected)

Lets focus on the "coop" frame.
I will take one 16' A frame and build the coop into approximately half of the structure. the floor of the coop will be be measured 3' up the side walls (I have 36' hardware cloth to fit perfect around the coop part) and about 8' out. give or take, and I am open to suggestions. If you can picture with 16' long a frame being half coop half run, and the chickens can also walk under the floor of the coop. simple disgn.
One side of the a frame coop could have a bump out access for nesting boxes. probably 5 long. there could also be verious vents or openings in other walls. I plan to also roof the run on this structure, so the roof will run all 16' I am still deciding on roofing material, I am open to suggestions. I was thinking plastic corrugated opaqe roofing. this might only work for the run I am not sure If i can make this work on the coop part as well, and be good structure. I would like there to be an easy way to clean out the coop. maybe the wall opposite of the nesting box could hinge completely up and a board could prop it up so I can sweep it out?

The second 16' A frame will be build to the same specs but will be a run only. with a door on at one end just made of wood frames inside of the studs of the a frame. I will widen that stud to 40" or so.

On both A frames. there will be 2x4 around all for sides on the ground, as well as probably 2 inside beams accross the ground as well.

The two A frames will be places together end to end making a 8.5' wide by 32' wide ground space. If I move in a couple years to more acreage or a different sitaution, I could use the coop as a mostly free range coop, and use the run for other projects.

Can anyone Picture it?! I am really excited!

 

[efalls]

That would be so cool Panorama!

 

[efalls]

nobody can picture it? no ideas or suggestions?

 

[fiddlebanshee]

Sketchup has a definite learning curve. In the beginning I spent probably a couple of weekends going through online tutorials before I got the hang of it. I am working on an A-frame coop for my future quail, and I am close to finishing the drawing, I will share it when it is done and if I have time I can see if I can draw up what you described. It shouldn't be too hard for me at this point since I do have the experience. Just one question, you are talking about 7'8" tall sides, I gather what you mean is that the length of your studs are 7'8", not the actual height of the coop, because if you tilt those the walk-in height would be less tall (77" to be exact). Just clarifying. Other than that your description is pretty clear.

ETA:

Having your enclosed coop section 3' up will not give you a very high coop (41"), plus, if it is 8" long and about 53" wide at that height, how are you going to get in there to clean it?

 

[Panorama]

Hi... I'm not an expert on sketchup, still in the learning phase. Thought you were looking for something a bit more basic... I'm not sure I could do the studs well. I'll let fiddle take over here.

Panorama