Splice a Member

Purpose

This feature lets you perform inner-panel splicing.

Prerequisites

An existing truss

Steps

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To splice a member/chord:

1. Open the truss and select the member to splice.

2. From the Joint menu, select Splice, click , or right-click to select from the pop-up menu.

The Enter Offset Distance dialog displays.

3. Enter a dimension.

The selected chord is spliced.

Note: Splicing direction (Heels In or Peak Down) can be adjusted in Env Data > Geometry > Auto Splice. You can also define whether to include splices in end panels. See Auto Splice settings.

On very long, interior members, you can apply auto-splice and then use the Optimize command to manually adjust the splice.

• Splice a Joint
• Remove a Splice