Antoine D'Halluin Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 (edited) Hello, I spent the night trying to solve bracework connection issues between trusses on a big truss with many corners & finally I measured several Prolyte H30V corners (C017, C016...) & found 0,713m while on Prolyte dwg symbole they measure 0,71m. Am I doing a mistake or is there an error in VectorWorks Library ? thanks Edited February 26, 2019 by Antoine D'Halluin 1 Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee JustinVH Posted February 26, 2019 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 26, 2019 I have reached out to the person who works with Prolyte and creates the Vectorworks symbols from their files. Their response is below: The dimensions on the website are rounded and I created the symbol from the original Prolyte DWGS. Prolyte always says to me: Our tolerance at welding is a half centimeter, so the symbols don’t need to be more exact. Quote Link to comment
Antoine D'Halluin Posted February 26, 2019 Author Share Posted February 26, 2019 Yes but this generate a big problem when you design a large closed set-up of truss. On paper/software, you cannot connect together the trusses and so you cannot do a bracework calculation. In reality, the metal is a little flexible & the concept of pin & clip is specially designed to compensate this metal tolerance. So I would highly recommend to stick to the official size of the truss that allow connexion of closed system... if not Bracework does not work... Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee JustinVH Posted February 26, 2019 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 26, 2019 Here is a file with the horizontal portion of the corner at a length of 710mm. The vertical length has not changed. Prolyte H30VC017 710mm.vwx Quote Link to comment
Antoine D'Halluin Posted February 26, 2019 Author Share Posted February 26, 2019 Thanks Rob & Justin, for your follow up & feed-back I have checked on the Prolyte Website & actually their dwg is 713mm ; as you said. in other direction half is 356,5 so same calculation hypothesis... So I feel like the issues is coming from their side. I will try to discuss this subject next time with our Prolyte interlocutor ; I cannot imagine having all corner library in 2 versions to manage connectivity in Bracework.... Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee JustinVH Posted February 26, 2019 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 26, 2019 Just realized your signature says Version 2018. I have attached the 2018 version as well. Prolyte H30VC017 710mm v2018.vwx 1 Quote Link to comment
Antoine D'Halluin Posted February 26, 2019 Author Share Posted February 26, 2019 oops ! I update my signature. thanks for this careful attention 😉 Quote Link to comment
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