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3D truss design walkthrough

Published 4 months ago • 1 min read

Hi everyone,

I’ve had a few people tell me they find roof truss layouts difficult to understand, so I’ve uploaded a short section from one of our recent live calls inside BengLab

In this part of the session, I talked through roof trusses and showed a 3D model.

​You can watch the walkthrough here​

This is the kind of practical engineering thinking we go through inside BengLab. Not just formulas, but how to look at a real structure and understand what is actually happening.

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Gabriel

BEng Gabriel

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