![]() If we do need sealed drawings, it's usually because someone is building in an area where there's a building department that requires them. ![]() Since we're in a rural area we don't get an engineers seal on probably 95% of what we do. The cost of the software and engineering support is built into the price of the plates. They provide the truss design software that we use. We buy our truss plates from a company called Alpine. But I do have a lot of training and experience. The vast majority of truss plants do not have engineers on staff at the plant. I thought I'd take a crack at explaining the typical process. Over the years I've run into a lot of misconceptions about how trusses are designed, who designs them, etc. ![]() I started working in a truss plant in 1984, and it went from there. ![]() I mentioned in another thread that I've been designing trusses most of my adult life. ![]()
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