Cannot generate valley set trusses


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I somehow was able to do this before, but deleted trusses and was able to do it with rafters, but now want to make a copy of the file with the valley set trusses to show as a framing option.

 

Main roof mixed pitch (8 and 5) has a 12 pitch cross gable that is framed in scissors trusses, the main roof trussed away from the center, needs to lay on the 12 pitch, and have a set of either stick built rafters doing the valley thing, or a truss valley set.

 

Where the lay-ons go, I drew a roof plane, stripped it of all save its 5/8 sheathing, and specified it in structure as overframe.  Here is a pic.

 

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The three roof planes above this, the section of the lower "main" roof that lays over the center gabled roof, all these three are specified in framing as being trussed.  See pics here.

 

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Those three are specified in structure as having a framing depth of 3 1/2".

 

With the three roof planes selected, I "autoframe" by clicking the framing button, and it gives me bad results.  The planes get framed in 2x4 rafters, and inside the lower roof structure, the scissor truss envelope of the center roof's roof plane and vaulted ceiling plane below, I get between-truss parallel-chord trusses.

 

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How to solve?

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Sorry for the post and taking bandwidth.  I got it.

 

The plane I drew was a "regular" roof plane and I thought by specifying that overframe thing it made it a truss base.  I corrected things and all is well.

 

One thing of note.  The trussmakers I know build these valley set trusses, when they get large like these, kind of like end wall trusses.  Vertical chords only, spaced about 48".  There is no way to edit a gable end truss and in the spec dialog, specify its chord spacing.  I manually edited these in the truss details.

 

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