Converting Plates for Uploaded Designs

Note

The video demonstrates uploading TRE files. Additional file types are available for upload which may help expedite translating existing designs into Paragon trusses. In this example, Paragon's AnyPlate is used for the plate conversion. AnyPlate is not a physical plate product, but rather represents an amalgamation of supported connector plate values used to maximize flexibility in design and fabrication.

Video Transcript:

This video demonstrates how to upload existing roof and floor truss TRE files and convert them to Paragon trusses using the connector plate of your choice.

ROOF IMPORT

From within a Paragon Design project, we’ll upload a set of roof truss designs by clicking Upload from the upper right. Select the TRE files, and then click Open.

The upload process reads all the key design data from the file, including lumber, plates, carried components, and any additional information used to generate the design.

If there were any issues during the upload process, they would be indicated in the More Details section.

The upload was successful without any errors or warnings.

Let’s explore one of the girder trusses to see what type of information came through.

We can see the upload resulted in the proper truss geometry, lumber and plate and even the carried components.

Load cases and all truss-to-truss loading will be applied upon analysis.

FLOOR IMPORT

Next, we’ll upload some floor truss designs so we can convert all plates in a single shot.

We’ll navigate to and select our floor truss files. Clicking Open will begin the upload process.

The 5 designs imported successfully with no errors or warnings.

VERIFY SETTINGS

Prior to converting the designs to the connector plate of your choice, we’ll want to verify all project settings, including:

Roof and Floor loads, wind and snow loads, and any other analysis criteria specific for the given project.

In this example, we’ll adjust our Creep Factor to 2.0 to comply with TPI 2014.

MATERIAL SETTINGS

Additionally, we’ll want to define which Plate Material List to use. A quick review of the list shows some of the options available, including ComboPlate and AnyPlate.

We’ll select AnyPlate for this example.

Designs sealed with AnyPlate enable component manufacturers to use any of the supported plate suppliers’ connector plates at the time of fabrication.

ANALYZE

Once we’re satisfied with our design settings, we’ll analyze all components and see that all components passed checks with no warnings.

Hover over and select any of the plates to see that all plates have been converted from the original specification to Paragon’s AnyPlate.

DOWNLOADS

Now that we’ve converted the plates from the uploaded TRE files and analyzed our components using AnyPlate, we are able to perform a few additional actions.

Easily generate Truss Design Drawings for component review, Create Shop Drawings, Select from a variety of Automated machinery files, and even download Paragon-generated TRE files, helping you integrate with your existing workflows and systems.

We hope this video showcased the power of the Paragon conversion process, enabling you to fully leverage the flexibility of using AnyPlate on any design.