Enhancement submitted on behalf of Conor Daly, from Jacobs Engineering Group. CS0223518 – PBI PRODUCT BACKLOG ITEM 1453001:

I would like to request an option to manually adjust the width of the gusset. Right now, you can see in the attached that the gusset extends unnecessarily far to the right beyond the vertical.

I want to reduce the be able to reduce the width of the gusset due to space constraints, and have it stop at a few inches to the right of the vertical connection (enough for the whitmore section) but that's not currently an option. This can be done in the Column-Beam-Brace module, but NOT the Truss-Gusset-Branch module. Even when dimension calculation is set to "manual", there is no way to control that width. I'm also not sure how the width is even determined, since the vertical is not centered on the gusset. Right now, I am having to do a manual calculation on the gusset and weld after designing the rest of the connection in RAM, by scaling the graphic for the reduced width, which is complicated and not exact due to how it changes the resultant force eccentricity and the C factor for the weld, etc.

Please let me know if you can provide clarity, and also pass this message on as a feature suggestion.