Sharing a truss

Send your truss to a classmate, a teacher, or yourself on another computer

Last updated 2026-09-19

There are two ways to share a truss: as a file or as text. Both are in the Share panel: click on the right side of the screen.

Neither works for you?

As a file

Download .truzme file → Open file…

One .truzme file that carries everything: the truss, display settings and background images.

Send the file like any other: email, chat, a shared drive. The other person opens it with Open file… in Truzme. More in Files.

Sending the file to yourself works too. On a school computer, it's the safest way to keep your work, because many of them wipe everything at sign-out. Why

As text

Copy as text → paste

Quick: paste it anywhere text goes, like a chat, an email, an assignment or an AI chat. Only the truss, without display settings or background images.

The other person clicks the canvas in Truzme, presses Ctrl+V, then Enter. Or pastes it into the Project code panel and clicks Apply. They see the truss with their own display settings.

You can also copy straight from the canvas: select the truss (Ctrl+A selects everything) and press Ctrl+C. That copy only takes the materials and sections the copied members use. Copy as text takes all of them.

The text is Project code. More on pasting: Copy, paste & duplicate.

Which one to use

* Email apps and assignment editors sometimes change pasted text: they add line breaks, turn quotes into curly quotes, or cut off long messages. If pasting it back gives "This Project code can't be pasted", send a .truzme file instead.

** Text opens with the other person's own settings: their units, which labels are on or off in the Display menu, and so on.

Use a file when you want the other person to see exactly what you see. Use text when you only need the truss, or when it's quicker to paste than to send a file.

Neither works for you?

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Assignments

A teacher can give every student the same starting truss through whatever Learning Management System the class already uses (Canvas, Moodle, Google Classroom, …).

Everything, exactly as you set it up

Attach a .truzme file. It keeps your display settings and background images, e.g. a photo of a bridge to trace. Students download it and open it with Open file…

Only the truss

Paste it as text. Students get the truss in their own display settings.

Teacher: build the starting truss, click Copy as text in the Share panel, and paste the text into the assignment.

Student: copy the text from the assignment, click the canvas in Truzme, press Ctrl+V, then Enter.

If the pasted text doesn't work, attach a .truzme file instead.