I am trying to create a truss that has solid plate steel top, bottom chords with a solid web component that is plate stell as well. I have done trusses in past, but that was with web members. How do you accomplish a solid web member that is composed of plate steel?
Shape of truss is unique too-- I beam in cross section shape, but bottom chord has radii components that get larger and smaller as shown in profile view.
Top chord is in red-- bottom chord in blue
Regards,
Clark
I'm not well versed enough to get this working well, but I've got started on a family. It's a couple of sweeps for the plates and an extrusion for the web.
Notes and problems:
1. All parameters are type parameters.
2. For some reason, it thinks it's a beam family, so you have to click on the Beam tool to place it. This is despite the fact that I started with the truss family template.
3. I have not defined everything well enough. Beyond a very narrow set of values, it results in the "can't make this crap, you moron" error message.
I'm hoping somebody better at families can take a look? I'm hoping to learn a little more also. I'm attaching the file to this post.
Edit... Hmmm... When I try to attach the file and post, I get a red text message telling me the contents of the file doesn't match the file type. It's just a typical rfa file. What's going wrong here?
