Designing a Wood Truss with Medeek Calculator App

[1oldman2]

Another study of hip roof framing where unequal pitches meet at the hip. The birdsmouth cut is 3.5" for all jack and common rafters. The hip rafter is dropped and off center so that it lines up with the roof planes. The hip roof combines a 12:12 pitch with a 6:12 pitch.

View model here:

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=uc12480ec-9330-464b-93eb-56bc73878207

Wow, fascinating to see the engineering that goes into a truss system. I'm no engineer or technical person like 98% of the people on this site, however I have spent a lifetime working on construction (everything from installing foundation footings to the ridge cap and most everything in between them) and I want to commend you on your project here. I'm wondering if I'm seeing this correctly and you only received two likes throughout this project ?
While I'm not walking top plate or hooking truss's any longer ( I spend my time caring for my wife who is recovering from a stroke) it was very refreshing to come across so many familiar terms and components of the system, not to mention the engineering aspect.
A friend of mine several years back took a stab at putting together a truss plant and I worked with him at it until local Nevada politics put him out of business. I built many a truss with him but the engineering was all done with Compu-truss so seeing the technical aspect is very interesting to me.
I'm curious as to whether you will be including the Girder truss into the collection you have here. ?
By the way a note from the "guy in the field", if anyone comes up with an H-1 clip that you don't have to bloody your fingers installing It will be incredibly popular.
Thanks again, two bloody thumbs up.
As an afterthought I probably would have "liked" nearly every post you did here, but I wouldn't want to appear to be spamming the thread.

 

[medeek]

Version 1.6.3 - 06.19.2016
- Added Gable Dormers to the Minor Roof Sub-Menu (dormer walls only).

For now only the walls of the dormer are created:

View model here:

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=e17866e5-2e1d-4fb7-8203-fcb6484e8f08

I am still ironing out the details on how to best model the roof geometry. I will probably offer either a rafter or truss option. Other details such as multiple windows will also come later.

For now please test the metric and imperial wall creation. I will probably need to post a tutorial video on how to use this feature since it involves selecting the main roof plane (top of a rafter or truss) and then two points that define the width/exterior corners of the dormer.

 

[stedes_dev]

Hi,

How is life...

Do you still work on your project...
If possible I might be interested to your source code...
Personnal use
Steph

 

[medeek]

Yes, I am not actively posting on this forum anymore but you can follow the development at design.medeek.com.

 

[jim hardy]

I just stumbled across this fascinating thread.

Amazing !

I'll try it out...

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It Gave a design not an error message ! Wow - nicely done!