OpenBuildings™ Station Designer Help

To place a steel truss

  1. Select (Place Trusses). The Steel Truss Modeling dialog appears.
  2. In the Mode field, select Place.
  3. Select and accept the location of the beginning of the truss by clicking End1 data point in the view.
  4. Select and accept the location of the end of the truss by clicking End1 data point in the view. The Steel Truss Program dialog appears.
  5. Complete the dialog as necessary in the respective tabs, then click Place. As required, you can Save the Steel Truss Setting data (in .xml) data before the Placing the truss. The steel truss is placed in the DGN.
    Note: The steel truss does not have any analytical properties.