Adjust Member Cuts to Improve Plating

Video Transcript:

 In this video we will review the front porch gable truss from Training Plan 3 to address over capacity plating at the ceiling vault peak.

Click to open the C01-GBL, truss from the components list.

The first thing we want to do is perform a detailed analysis for this truss.

Make sure detailed is checked from the options under the gear icon.

Then click analyze. The detailed analysis provides more information regarding what is exceeding capacity which is helpful for troubleshooting and devising a solution.

Now that the truss has been analyzed,  we can click on Analysis and History, then navigate to the lower left and expand the Plates section. We see that plate pair number 12 is operating at 999% capacity.

Let’s delete the plate and take a look at the ceiling peak joint. It looks like we need to adjust the bottom cuts here where W2, B2 and B1 meet up.

To do so, let's select W2, and review the Bottom Cuts from the Properties Panel.

Here we can see there are two cuts being applied. We want to delete the B1 Port bottom cut number 2.

Then we want to click to select the B2 Port Bottom Cut number 1, and here we will select the horizontal reference line under W2 for this cut.

Next, we need to adjust the end of B1. Select B1, and shift click to select the same reference line we used for W2.

We will repeat this for B2. Select B2 and then shift click on the reference line.

Let’s re-analyze and see if adjusting the member cuts improved the analysis results of the ceiling peak joint.

Alright - Checks Pass and everything looks good!

Thanks for watching and see you in the next one.