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11-22-2005, 01:30 PM #1Registered User Promoted
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editing trusses
At the users meeting this past summer in Idaho I saw the instructor edit a drop gable truss (I think this was David Potter). I forgot how this was done. The problem was to drop the truss 3 1/2" instead of the default of 1 1/2". Does any know how this is done?
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11-22-2005, 03:05 PM #2
What do you mean exactly by "Drop"? Do you mean lower in the "Z" axis? If so select the truss (which then activates the "Edit" toolbar); within the "Edit" toolbar is the "Transform-Replicate" command icon from which you can then move, duplicate or otherwise edit the selected truss. Is that what you mean?
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11-22-2005, 04:57 PM #3Registered User Promoted
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Do you have version 10?
If so, one of the included tutorial videos explains how to do it.- Lane
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11-23-2005, 03:11 AM #4Registered User Promoted
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I mean "end truss" on a gable. I am running v10.6.
I seems that we were all suprised that this could be done.
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11-23-2005, 03:20 AM #5Registered User Promoted
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open the build framing defaults dbx>roof tab and set the lookoout depth to 3 1/2" thne build your dropped gable truss...
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11-23-2005, 03:24 AM #6Registered User Promoted
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Maybe it was "reduced gable" Anyway I need to reduce it 3 1/2" so that I can install 2x4's on edge instead of flat. I find no editing tool in the DBX for this. I remember in the class there were handles that appeared so this could be edited. How do I get these handles? I saw it done once and now I would like to do the same. Thanks for any help on this.
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11-23-2005, 03:30 AM #7Registered User Promoted
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Thanks Tim, that did the trick of adjusting the reduced gable truss. Now if I could only find those handles. I know I saw them in class, I think even David was suprised to see them when we stumbled across this way of editing.