Metal connectors where members actually touch

Purlin hangers, truss plates and uplift ties are placed only where two members genuinely meet, and the order counts exactly the hardware the model shows.

What it is

A connector pass working in exact contact geometry — the hip's true 45-degree centreline segment and the real wall lines — rather than bounding-box guesses. A purlin or jack ending ON a hip segment gets a face-mount or skewed hanger; a rafter or truss crossing a wall line gets an uplift tie at the wall top.

Also called: hurricane ties · uplift ties · purlin hangers · simpson · hardware count

See it
Metal connectors where members actually touch
Prepared for
Delia Yoder
1140 Ridge Line Rd · Fair Play
Shell package$31,577
Concrete & site$9,167
Doors & windows$6,112
Trim & finish$4,074
Total
$50,930
Signature
Frame view at a hip corner with hangers highlighted where jack rafters land on the hip, and an uplift tie at the truss heel on the post. Sample data — no customer information appears here.
How it works
  1. 1Plan centreline segments are computed from each member's slope length times cos(tilt), because size along the long axis is the SLOPE length.
  2. 2Ties live at the HEEL — the bottom chord crossing the wall line — since top chords are plumb-cut outlines and no longer indicate bearing.
  3. 3Hip rafters get their tie on the corner post.
  4. 4A monitor's raised centre gets ties on its interior column lines.
  5. 5The takeoff counts each nominal directly off the modelled hardware, with a note on what each one is for.
Why we built it

Hardware is the easiest thing to leave off an order and the most annoying thing to be short of on a Saturday with a crew standing around. An earlier pass placed brackets off bounding boxes, which floated them out over the eaves attached to nothing. Connectors are now counted off the modelled points where members actually meet, so the hardware count is exactly as right as the geometry is.

The problem
  • Connector hardware omitted or guessed on the material order.
Sound familiar?
What you get
Hardware on the order matches hardware in the model.
Each connector line says what it is for and where it goes.

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