Anttti Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 From what I gather from the manufacturer's data, Global Truss F34C30 is a basic 3-way 90° corner block. (See it yourself: https://globaltruss.de/en/TRUSS/Truss-25-30-cm/F34/F34-3-way-corner-C30-90.html) When I insert a F34C30-85R or F34C30-85L into my drawing, I get these oddly angular pieces. One of the ends is not in 90° but in 85° (not sure if totally accurate or approximated, but anyway). Is this supposed to be? Am I using the wrong symbol, doing something else wrong or is there a bug in the symbols? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee jcogdell Posted October 6, 2020 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted October 6, 2020 The F34 C30 series corner is available with several different leg angles, each is a separate symbol and uses the Global Art.Nr. as the symbol name Here's the search results for F34 C30 corners from the Global truss website https://globaltruss.de/index.php?stoken=1AA2F372&force_sid=mfvkl0or73b4mktu5dp9bossp6&lang=1&cl=search&searchparam=F34+C30 Quote Link to comment
Anttti Posted October 7, 2020 Author Share Posted October 7, 2020 Stupid me, thanks! That's what the -85R/L stands for... There still is an issue with the connectivity, though. A had a similar problem (with the same kind of corner piece, I think) in earlier version, which the was found out to be a bug (that's partly why I was so keen to think the 85° to be a bug, too). The corner piece doesn't want to connect from one of its ends/legs. I can rotate it separately (see picture) but if I try to drag it to be a part of the same system, it turns around. This is the F34C30 corner piece with all 90° legs. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee jcogdell Posted October 7, 2020 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted October 7, 2020 try changing your view angle slightly, normally this solves not being able to connect a corner in the orientation you want. Also where you hover the mouse over the straight section dictates the insertion position, you should see the auto-connect highlight change in response Quote Link to comment
Anttti Posted October 8, 2020 Author Share Posted October 8, 2020 19 hours ago, jcogdell said: try changing your view angle slightly, normally this solves not being able to connect a corner in the orientation you want. Also where you hover the mouse over the straight section dictates the insertion position, you should see the auto-connect highlight change in response This is what I thought first - that it would be basically a problem with the user interface and adjusting the view angle wold do the trick. But it doesn't seem to work like with other trusses. I tried with the F44 series and and they work fine. In fact also the F44C30-95 inserts nicely into the right position. But if I try to insert the F34C30 I can insert it in only three of the four possible rotational positions regardless of view (and I have tried in the same view angles where the other pieces work correctly, of course). Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee jcogdell Posted October 8, 2020 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted October 8, 2020 I can get the corner to connect in all 4 possible rotational positions, I did find that I needed to change which leg of the corner I had selected to make this possible though. I'm testing using 2021 sp1, are you using the same version of Vectorworks? Quote Link to comment
Anttti Posted October 8, 2020 Author Share Posted October 8, 2020 I have 2020 sp2.1 so that could be. I'm about to upgrade so I'll look into this again after that. Thanks for all your help! Quote Link to comment
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