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Adding a radial framing truss member

Adding a radial framing truss member

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Adding a radial framing truss member

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- [Instructor] You can't model an actual truss on a curve. You can, however, model a beam like a truss and curve that. Let's create a beam family and add it to our project. To get started, under families let's go new. Let's scroll down til we find structural framing beams and braces, let's open that up. Let's delete this blob that's sitting there, select it, click delete. Let's go to our front elevation, let's right-click on this reference plane here and create similar. On the draw panel, click your pick lines button, let's offset four feet, I'm going to offset this reference level up four feet. Then I'll hit escape a few times. Now, click on your aligned dimension button, select your ref level, select the top one, select your four foot dimension, let's click create parameter, let's call it height, we'll click okay. On the create tab, click the set button. Click the dropdown here, and let's select center front back. Click okay. Let's click the sweep button. Click sketch path. Go from…

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