6.3 Analyzing Trusses

Estimated Completion Time: 4 minutes

Description

This module demonstrates how to analyze all trusses within a project. Analyzing trusses applies loads and forces to chord and web members and also applies plating. The Explorer panel displays the analysis status to aid in the systematic review of all truss components.

Tip

If you would like to perform a detailed analysis for all components, a best practice is to open a single component in Design Mode, enable Detailed Analysis, return to Layout Mode, and Analyze All Changed Components.

Objectives

• Describe how to ensure a Detailed Analysis is performed on all trusses.

• Explain how to identify analysis status from the Explorer panel.

• Demonstrate how to analyze all components from Layout.

Additional Resources

• Training Plan 3 accessible from Choose/Create Project > OPEN SAMPLE

Learning Activity

Watch video and follow along within the Paragon Design App.

Video Transcript:

In this video, we are going to analyze all of our trusses. After analyzing the trusses we will be able to then fine tune each truss where adjustments may be needed.

Let's analyze our trusses. From the project menu, select analyze all changed components. That'll bring up the analyzing components dialogue box. We can see here the software is systematically going through each design, one at a time. We can follow the process down as it works. Notice that the majority of these have green check marks and a few others have some red exclamations. That means we are finding a few issues with some of the designs. We will review each of these in a future video.

To view the item in question, you can click on the carrot to expand and see the error. We are prompted with the close option after each truss design has been analyzed. After we click to close the tool we can then view each truss design that is in question. As we see most are in Green that their checks passed. A few are in red as well. We will review these trusses and solve any issues that didn't pass in another video.

That will do it for this quick instruction on analyzing our trusses.

Thanks for watching!