Jump to content

Duplicate truss crosses in the same plane / space


Mark Aceto

Recommended Posts

  • Vectorworks, Inc Employee

@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

  • Like 1
Link to comment
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.

Link to comment
  • Vectorworks, Inc Employee

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.

Link to comment

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Restore formatting

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
×
  • Create New...