Angled rafter beam with knife plate

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WLR

• January 05, 2026 03:02

1st day with with Sketchup, Profile Builder4 and decasteel trial versions.

Is it possible to create a sloping rafter beam knife connection as in attached screenshot?

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  Dale Martens

  • January 05, 2026 15:47

  Sorry not exactly. Currently, you can create sloping knife plate connections using this style only:

  

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  WLR

  • January 05, 2026 18:46
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  Where do we find the steps to complete this. Im brand new to this, trying to see if I can transition from Advance Steel.

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  WLR

  • January 06, 2026 21:05

  How do you move the vertical row of bolts to the right in the image below? I tried changing the sheared edge distance in standards, but it has no effect.

  

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  WLR

  • January 07, 2026 14:13
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  I am truly sorry to bombard this thread, but I just can't figure it out. I tried for 3 or 4 hours to get this knife plate work out of the box and/or looking for someway to adjust the connection parameters and I just can't do it. Are there any specific videos and/or screen recordings anywhere to help? See the latest two attempts this morning below. This is the same horizontal beam with a W shape column on one end and a HSS6x6x1/2 column at the other end. It seems each time I create this connection it uses different parameters....

  

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  Dale Martens

  • January 07, 2026 19:41

  Hi Billy - after doing some testing myself, I see that there are some issues with this connection type.  It is not reacting properly to the standard sheared edge distance settings.

  Also, there is no way currently to adjust the hole position beyond the 'Top of Beam to First' row setting and the standard edge distances.  We hope to add more customization in a future update.

  Thank you for reporting this.

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