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[Paul James]

Can anyone get this type of truss show correctly in Softplan?

 

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[Steve and Carla Farnam]

Should show correctly given the heel height, roof pitch are set.

You may have to edit the truss and select the closest truss style.

If in a cross section the truss may have to be hand drawn in if unable

to find truss style.

  I have used this style on a couple houses and the truss showed correctly.

[Joseph Smith]

Paul, your webbing doesn't show in SP.  Remember, SoftPlan is truss engineering software....but i agree this mono truss should show something generic like on other truss styles.  Leave them a suggestion.

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[Paul James]

Right, Joe- I don't care about the webbing- I won't show that in sections just for that reason.

I didn't give the right example- this is the type I'm having problems with: a mono scissor truss. 

I get the same problem on standard pitched roof scissor trusses as well.

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[Mark Petri]

I get some funky trusses when working with SP roofs. So, I often erase or turn them off so as not to show them. I just had this happen with a scissor truss on a very simple roof with a raised heel...

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[Keith Almond]

Paul,

 

Set the roof and then set the ceiling. Trusses will take the space between the two. I don't believe that the program will ever adjust to create the angled heels ... I've never seen that detail used, and I don't think that an intelligent computer program would never be able to assume that's what you want to do.

[Yvon Gonthier]

It seems like the cathedral causes problems. I tried a raised heel and problems started with teh cathedral.