Garage Roof Truss Direction


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I have a typical garage on the side of the house.  The issue is the trusses are automatically running lengthwise (long) vs widthwise (shorter) resulting in some crazy trusses. I know that at the end of the day these will get final custom designed from the supplier - just trying to make this look right and also help with the bill of materials to estimate.

 

I understand roof groups and that sort of helps except that the roof then stops at the end of the garage.  Any ideas here besides manual roof panels?

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The auto truss builder was added only a year or two ago and has plenty of bugs. I reported this one long ago.

 

The easiest solution is to draw your own trusses. See help/videos for how to -- it's not like you need to build them from parts, the program does the difficult work.

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3 hours ago, solver said:

The auto truss builder was added only a year or two ago and has plenty of bugs. I reported this one long ago.

 

The easiest solution is to draw your own trusses. See help/videos for how to -- it's not like you need to build them from parts, the program does the difficult work.

 

Yup - probably the way to go.  If I set that to a separate roof group it has 90% of the work done and then I just need to re-connect the rooflines.

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