Scissor trusses are designed with a slope on the outside and inside.
Vaulted roof trusses design.
To build the roof launch chief architect and use open planto open the chief architect plan in which you would like to create scissor trusses.
The bottom chords are angled to create vaulted ceilings.
Just as there are many types of roofs with many roof parts there are many different types of roof trusses this extensive article explains through a series of custom truss diagrams the different truss configurations you can use for various roofs.
When a vaulted ceiling has a different pitch than the roof planes above scissor trusses are produced.
The companies that fabricate the trusses use sophisticated software to design the trusses.
In this example a simple 20 x 30 rectangular plan is used.
Roof trusses are built in a truss manufacturing warehouse and delivered preassembled to the jobsite.
You provide the span of the roof and the desired exterior roof pitch and the software does the rest.
While this article focuses on configurations we also have a very cool set of illustrations showcasing the different parts anatomy of roof trusses.
The simplest way to get a vaulted ceiling is by setting vaulted roof trusses.