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Creating a line-based rigging truss

Creating a line-based rigging truss

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Creating a line-based rigging truss

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- [Instructor] Using the truss bars we had earlier, we're going to make a line-based family arraign these truss bars up. We've got a lot to do, so let's just jump in. Let's go to Families, let's go to New. Browse to your region. Let's go to Generic Model Line Based. Click Open. Now let's create a sweep. Let's click on Sweep with Sketch Path. Just make sure you type SI for snap intersection. SI for snap intersection. Hit Escape a couple times. Click Finish. Let's go to our left elevation. Let's click on Edit Profile. Now, to create some reference planes though, let's go to Create, let's go to Reference Plane. In the Draw panel, it's pick Lines. Let's offset one foot six to the left, one foot six to the right. On your Measure panel, let's click our Align Dimension button. Let's do an equally constrained dimension. Then an overall dimension. Select your three-foot dimension. Let's create parameter. Let's…

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