Truss quantity report missing elements and showing incorrect quantity

[Cristiano Alves]

Hello everyone,
 

I’m trying to generate quantity reports for truss, but only some truss objects appear in the report, while others are missing.

To rule out file corruption, I created a new document, copied all the truss objects, and recalculated the report — but the result is exactly the same.

As you can see in Image 1, there are many horizontal trusses, all from Prolyte.

However, in Image 2, you can see the generated report:

The list is much shorter than expected.

Some truss types appear that are not even present in the drawing and the quantities are incorrect as well

I’ve attached the file so you can take a closer look.

 

What am I doing wrong here, and what can I do to make sure all truss objects are correctly included and counted in the report?

 

 

 

 

[Scott C. Parker]

Please post a sample file so that the collective can take a look. It’s best to copy the problem items into a new file to keep the file small and avoid any NDA issues at hand. Please use a definable file name. We get so many named “sample.” 🙂
Thanks, Scott

[Cristiano Alves]

I forget the file. sorry.
Truss Report Bug.vwx

[Scott C. Parker]

The inventory list is used to list all the pieces of truss, rather than listing hanging positions. You have 57 sticks of truss in the drawing, and 57 are listed in the inventory window. It seems like you're looking to have a list of each hanging position and how many truss are in each. This would be a worksheet report instead of using the general inventory counting method. 

[TomWhiteLight]

When you create your report you need to check the box that says PIO's.

[Cristiano Alves]

Hello
Thank you for your answers

 

On 2/6/2026 at 2:40 PM, Scott C. Parker said:

The inventory list is used to list all the pieces of truss, rather than listing hanging positions. You have 57 sticks of truss in the drawing, and 57 are listed in the inventory window. It seems like you're looking to have a list of each hanging position and how many truss are in each. This would be a worksheet report instead of using the general inventory counting method. 
 

Understand your post, however I used hanging positions every time, and I think that I used the inventory count to do it.

 

 

On 2/7/2026 at 12:41 PM, TomWhiteLight said:

When you create your report you need to check the box that says PIO's.

Are taking on report button under the the inventory window?

[TomWhiteLight]

It's on the create report dialogue.

Tagging @Scott C. Parker to see how this works in the Inventory and Equipment List.

[Scott C. Parker]

6 minutes ago, TomWhiteLight said:

to see how this works in the Inventory and Equipment List.

How what works? Sorry, I need more info on what info is being asked to be reported.
Truss counts via inventory are just that: counts of truss in the document, both on their own and inside hanging positions. Hanging positions, themselves, are not an inventory item. They are containers of other objects that can be counted, and we look inside them and report on the actual objects.
To report on hanging positions, use the Create Report menu command to list all the hanging positions in a worksheet.

I may be losing something in the translation of what info is desired.

[Cristiano Alves]

4 hours ago, Scott C. Parker said:

How what works? Sorry, I need more info on what info is being asked to be reported.
Truss counts via inventory are just that: counts of truss in the document, both on their own and inside hanging positions. Hanging positions, themselves, are not an inventory item. They are containers of other objects that can be counted, and we look inside them and report on the actual objects.
To report on hanging positions, use the Create Report menu command to list all the hanging positions in a worksheet.

I may be losing something in the translation of what info is desired.

 

Hello everyone, and thank you for the help.

Now I’m the one who is not understanding something. I probably didn’t explain myself clearly in the first post.

In the first post I included two images:

• one showing my truss configuration
• and a screenshot of the inventory
• I also uploaded my VWX file.

In the inventory screenshot we can clearly see that some equipment is missing.

Everything described as INTERAL brand corresponds to the elements highlighted in green in the image.
 

All the remaining elements are Prolyte truss, and I believe it is obvious that there are many more than 5 units, which is what the inventory currently shows.

 

[Scott C. Parker]

The reports are correct. The sources are the issue.

What is happening is that reports are reading information from two different places, and the truss symbol object information does not match. You have made changes to one or both.

1. The Truss Symbol record shown here says the truss is 2000mm long

2. The Truss Properties dialog says the truss is 4000mm long.

Both sets of information need to match to get the correct results in both cases.

 

[Cristiano Alves]

Thank you @Scott C. Parker for your time to analize my problem. 

I understand that I have a problem with inconsistent data, but I used the trusses directly from the Vectorworks library (like I made everything) and I didn’t modify the objects.

In all my other projects I’ve never had this issue, so I’m trying to understand what might be different this time.

Is it possible that something changed automatically when inserting the truss or when converting it into a truss object?
Or could this happen if the truss properties were edited at some point without noticing?

I’m just trying to understand what I might have done differently in this project.

[Scott C. Parker]

@Cristiano Alves It's possible that you made some edits to some truss during your process and when you brought in new truss, the new truss took the settings from existing truss in the document. Without seeing the entire process, it is hard to say.

[Cristiano Alves]

On 3/5/2026 at 3:44 PM, Scott C. Parker said:

@Cristiano Alves It's possible that you made some edits to some truss during your process and when you brought in new truss, the new truss took the settings from existing truss in the document. Without seeing the entire process, it is hard to say.

I think that you can investigate this, because I use the same process that I used all the time.
Import the trusses from the RM, join them, change for hanging position, design, report.

Is the first time this happen to me, And ai Used the same workflow.

First of all, how I can fix this Setting problems?

[Scott C. Parker]

On 3/4/2026 at 9:04 PM, Cristiano Alves said:

when converting it into a truss object?

If you converted an object into a truss, you would need to update the truss properties to tell the converted object what it should have as settings for Braceworks to listen to. My screenshot from before shows that some truss have 2000mm in one set of settings and 4000mm in the other. They both need to match.