Purpose
A lay-in gable is used for step down hips. It allows for a gabled truss to be laid over the hip girder and hip trusses in a hip set in order to facilitate sheathing application. Usually, the flat top chords are dropped, and then you can "lay in" the gable; however, lay-in gables can be placed before the trusses are dropped.
See example
Steps
- Select Lay-in Gable from the Truss Placement menu.
The prompt displays: Select a line for next side of Lay-in polygon area, are "Accept" to complete polygon.
- Select the lines to form a polygon.
- Click Accept to create the lay-in gable.
The lay-in gable is added.
