Truss Family Enhancements - Truss top and bottom connection

[SeanSpence]

Issue: Projects that use trusses normally have a truss top chord plan and a truss bottom chord plan. This is because trusses are normally in excess of 8'-0" deep. Currently you can only connect members such as purlins and bottom chord bracing to the bearing chord selected in the truss instance properties. (see below)

If additional members need to be attached they need to be assigned to a different level. these elements dont connect to the truss and as such, their symbolic offsets dont work creating graphical representation errors on plan. Because they dont attach, they also do not move with the element if trusses move during the building designs evolution.

Solution: allow framing members to attach to both the top and bottom chord of a truss

[SeanSpence]

This suggestion and others titled Truss Family Enhancements were part of a larger post that has been broken up in order to enable developer workflows.

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Thanks

Sean

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[haedicu]

Thank you for this suggestion. We will be further evaluating this one in the near future and will keep you posted if we need any additional feedback or clarification. Please feel free to continue voting on this one as it will help us with the continued evaluation.

best regards

Udo

[kimberly.fuhrman]

In an effort to consolidate threads, we are updating this thread to Gathering Support. We are continuing to evaluate where this request falls into our roadmap and will provide an update when we have made a decision. 

We are in the process of improving and consolidating the Revit Ideas. This is by no means a downgrade...simply part of our cleanup efforts. Rest assured that your Idea and feedback is valuable to our teams, and that your Idea will continue to be reviewed. 

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