lost truss system functionality as soon as I record as symbol

[Ben3B]

Hello I 've a project were I will have for time exactly the same stuff.

it's composed by plant construction truss light hoist ...

So i would draw one time, save it as symbol.

by the way i could modify 1 symbol in the RM and all the instance in the file will be modified.

 

The problem is that i lost truss system property like select system object or change height of a system

 

Is it normal ?

 

if I check the convert to group box, in the file i m able to change the height, but if I modify the symbol in the RM it  dont change in the file because it s a group and not a symbol...
 

 

PB truss as symbol.vwx

Edited January 30 by Ben3B

[klinzey]

This works as designed.
It's a little technical but once you convert it to a symbol the data can no longer be unique for each symbol instance.

Also in this case you have 2 completely separate systems in the symbol which makes it even more complicated.

You could build the circular truss using just symbols, not truss object, convert that to a symbol.
Insert the straight truss symbols, as symbols, and then convert that to a symbol.
The issue with this approach is that you would have to enter the structural data and other information about the entire circular truss and the entire straight truss.
Manufactures typically only supply data for a single section of truss so it's difficult to do something like this.

[Ben3B]

Arf too bad 
so in Work In Progress session my last possibity is to ref an external file, and as soon as the setup is frozen I can copy past from the ref file to the using file ...

But I will have that problem 

 

Edited January 31 by Ben3B