Components Section

The Components section lists each component in the project. Tools on the Components tab allow sorting, grouping, deleting, and copying of components within the project.

Overview

The ability to consolidate components for the entire project in a single location has the following advantages:

• Changes to components used in multiple plans/elevations need to be made only once.
• Only one sealed engineering document per component is needed, regardless of the number of plans/elevations in the project used in the component.

• Production groupings for components used in multiple plans/elevations can all be defined in a single location.

Components List

Display a list of individual components by group.

• Status icons indicate the current analysis status for each truss in the Component List. 
  • = Truss passed analysis
  • = Truss failed analysis
  • = Truss has unresolved issues
  • = Truss could not be plated
  • No info = Truss has not been analyzed

• Double-click a truss in the list to open it for editing in Truss Studio.
• Search for components within the list.
• Labels for user-managed trusses display in italics in the Components List.
• Properties for components are visible in the Properties pane when the component is highlighted on the Component List. The board list for each truss can also be viewed and board properties can be edited.
• Components can be added to the Components tab using two different methods. See New Component .
• Quantities for components are determined by the number of times a component is used in a plan/elevation and how many times the plan/elevation is referenced by a production-ready lot. For details, see Project Information View - Quantity Relationship Summary.
• A component with a red label indicates that the materials for that component are unavailable in the material catalog.