Placing structural member using Marionette

[PvWarch]

Is it possible to place a structural member using marionette and use marionette input to change the settings of the structural member?

[Marissa Farrell]

It should be possible, but it will take a lot of intervention. 
Typically to do this you would use a combination of the Create Custom Object node and the nodes that manipulate record fields. Since by default, we don't expose the record fields used to define PIOs, this will take some investigative work (I'll try to dig around for a file I made a while back that could make this easier).

This is also under the assumption that that's how the Structural Member object is defined. 

[PvWarch]

Hi Marissa,

 

Thank you for your quick reply. Sounds good, but I hope it does not get too complicated. My idea was to be able to use POI's in Marionette to make it easier to setup a more complex model. For example a smal shed. See attachment. So being able to program this with a few parameters like length, height, depth and roof angle for example.

[Marissa Farrell]

Definitely theoretically possible. Ideally you'd define the shapes of the SMs first, and then duplicate them along paths. There's currently nothing in our default content that does this right out of the box, but it should be a simple enough network.

[PvWarch]

I already tried to make a marionette network to model this shed, but it gets a bit complicated. I am struggling with all the angles (especially the braces) so i thought that it would be easier to use POI's in a network. But when I read your reply, this may not be the best way to do this. I also want to make a quantity takeoff  to be able to calculate the cost of building the shed. Thought this would be easier when using structural members. See attachment for my (messy) network.

marionnet carport 20250505.vwx