Truss Tool - Confusing Double Click Behavior

[stayathomedad]

I am working with the Truss Tool and have found some odd behavior. When I double click in Single Insertion mode it inserts truss as expected. But if I have the mode set to Distributed Insertion a double click inserts truss in a completely different location.

 

Is this behavior expected and I missing the intention, or is it a hiccup with the Truss Tool?

[jcogdell]

Distributed insertion mode is meant to have a slightly different double click bahviour from single insertion, in distributed mode the second click should define the end of the series of truss sections that you're drawing vs inserting a single section with a double click in single insertion mode.
When I was testing this just now in update 3 2025 it working for me as expected, double click in single insertion places a truss, double click in place in distributed insertion doesn't place a truss since no line to insert the truss along was created. I'm on win 11 though and its possible the issue you are seeing is mac only.

[stayathomedad]

Using Update 3 on OSX. I dug a little deeper. Definitely a bug. I plan to submit this as a bug report.

 

This is what I do to see the behavior:

1. Insert a truss series  with the Distributed Insertion mode. First click defines the start of the truss sections. The second click defines the end of the series. Just as expected.

2. Now with the Truss Tool still in Distributed Insertion mode, if I go to a different location in the drawing and double click, it will duplicate, in place, the previous truss series that I most recently added.

 

I now understand why I had some mysterious duplicated truss sections in my latest project.