Offsetting Truss Lines from Intersecting Fire Collars (Bubble Deck + Video Demo)

The effective point of this blog is to demonstrate the use of a jig – not just any old jig – but a jig which accepts user inputs using the CTRL + SHIFT + MOUSE-WHEEL (up or down) to change the jig’s behaviour. When the jig is finished running, everything returns back to normal.

This is best demonstrated with a video:

Move Intersecting Truss by Panel Thickness (with Jig) from Tek1 on Vimeo.

We use this jig and command as part of our Bubble Deck tools dll.

The reason we utilise tools like this:

This allows us to turn over shop drawings faster, more efficiently. This allows our precast fabricator to massively improve their working capital position:

• Their factory staff is always utilised – they don’t have massive overheads of 50 guys sitting on the factory floor twiddling their thumbs,
• They can get in and out of jobs quickly – minimising their liabilities and expenses and also collecting revenues faster,
• Faster revenue has huge benefits in terms of interest saved vs interest earned – especially for the developer. If you can allow the developer to finish the job a couple of weeks earlier you save on: construction costs, and also, as before, their interest expenses and their liquidity also improves. That’s worth its weight in gold.
• There is nothing worth more than: accurate drawings, done quickly. That’s what we strive for.