attaching lower hanging load to truss

[Peter Telleman]

Hi everyone,

 

I have a videoscreen hanging under a truss, but at some distance under that truss, therefor it doesn't autoconnect to it. Obviously I'd like to have it connected to the truss so Braceworks uses it in the calculations. I've read several things on hanging position which suggests it's what I need, but I might just be very slow in understanding the explanations, because I can't get it done. I've attached a test setting to this topic. What I want is to have the LED screen attach to the truss, but both staying on their current position.

 

Help please?

lower screen attaching test.vwx

[jcogdell]

There are a couple of ways to accomplish this

1. use the load tool to add point loads to the supporting truss or pipe structure where the screen will be suspended from.
2. add an invisible pipe or truss that the screen is hung from (class it seperately to control visibility), and is in turn connected to the actual supporting truss or structure above with drops or hoists, effectively this is suimulating the structural part of the screen (or in the case of a LED wall the flying bars) where the rigging would be attached.
3. If you are hregularly hanging LED walls and have the symbols for the flying bars you can go a step further and convert them into truss objects to roughly approimate the behaviour of the bars for Braceworks and to be able to reuse them in the future.