Truss
Turns a volume into a structure of beams and braces.
Truss replaces the volume of its children with a grid of beams and diagonal braces, inside as well, like an industrial structure. The children stay editable.
Curves, openings and open surfaces
With Fit surface on, the structure follows the curves, edges and openings of the model: the sphere stays round and the gear keeps its teeth and hole. Planes, disks and other open surfaces get beams only on the surface. With it off, solids keep only the inner grid.
Properties
- Fit surface: Makes the structure follow the outline of the model.
- Density: How many cells fit along the longest side. Raise it to capture smaller details.
- Detail level: From 0 to 100. Low values simplify joints and close beams; high values keep more detail.
- Beam thickness: The thickness of the beams.
- Brace thickness: The thickness of the braces relative to the beams.
- Profile: The beam profile: I shaped, square or round.
- Bracing: Alternating braces, crossed in an X or none.
Thin walls become a single layer structure, with no beams crossing through the inside.