Duplicate truss crosses in the same plane / space

[Mark Aceto]

Not sure what's causing this but I have to find and delete the duplicates:

 

[Pat Stanford]

Maybe a worksheet of Truss Crosses. Fields for the X, Y Z position. Sort on the positions. Should be relatively easy to see the duplicates with the same (or even close) locations in the list.

[Kevin Allen]

select coincident objects?

 

[Mark Aceto]

There are A LOT of them, and I'm wondering what is causing this issue (other than a bug) because that could be a clue to the errors I'm trying to fix.

 

Also, they reproduce quickly on their own.

 

[jcogdell]

@Mark AcetoI've had a look at your file and as far as I can tell the issue is being caused by the lower layers of unistrut being too close together, I found moving them each about an inch apart stops the duplicate truss crosses being created. I've Dm'd you a fixed version of the file

[Mark Aceto]

5 hours ago, jcogdell said:

@Mark AcetoI've had a look at your file and as far as I can tell the issue is being caused by the lower layers of unistrut being too close together, I found moving them each about an inch apart stops the duplicate truss crosses being created. I've Dm'd you a fixed version of the file

 

Thanks, Jesse!

 

That makes sense. I've noticed that with any rigging elements, literally anything with a pixel (even truss cross labels) can throw off VW/BW, so that's a good note for anyone following this. Hopefully, I won't have too many 41mm strut to 41mm strut connections but I've already 2 gigs with that in the past 2 months, so... 

 

As a solution / workaround, I'm wondering if I can create custom truss cross symbols that smaller/thinner and won't clash with each other. I guess then I would pick that symbol in the Insert Connection settings before connection any rigging objects. I thought there was a way to scale them but I can't find it.

[JustinVanHassel]

If you change the offset of the truss cross symbol in the record it will change the thickness. You may have to adjust the insertion point but I thing you can go down to 1mm of offset if you need a really thin connection. You will also have to adjust the 3D extrude thickness of the symbol that you make to get the visual to not clash.