Guides

How to get the most out of Truzme

Want to know the physics behind trusses?

Learn the basics

Interface tour

A quick, guided walkthrough — right inside the app.

How-to

2026-09-06

Getting started

Build your first truss — a simple triangle — and read off its reactions and member forces

How-to
Example

2026-09-24

Work with examples

How example projects work in Truzme — open one to explore, and keep it if you want to.

How-to
Example

2026-09-14

Copy, paste & duplicate

Copy part of your truss and paste it back, or paste it anywhere as text

How-to

2026-09-18

Working with AI

Let an AI design or change your truss, then bring its answer back into Truzme

How-to

2026-09-18

Sharing a truss

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

How-to

2026-09-19

Files

How Truzme keeps your work automatically, how to connect a .truzme file so it saves there too, and when your work can disappear.

How-to

2026-09-22

Using Truzme on a Chromebook

How to keep your work on a school Chromebook

For teachers

2026-09-19

Materials & sections

What Young's modulus, strength, area and moment of inertia mean, and how each cross-section shape gets there.

Theory

2026-09-14

Units

Metric or Imperial only changes how numbers are shown — it never changes your structure's real size.

Reference

2026-09-13

Strength & utilisation

How Truzme checks a member's stress against its material's strength, and how to read the Utilisation panel and diagrams.

Theory
Example

2026-09-15

Stability check

Simple rules that keep a truss stable, and how Truzme tells you when one can move

Theory
Example

2026-09-24

Buckling

How to turn on the buckling check in Truzme and read its results

How-to
Example

2026-09-24

Teaching with Truzme

Why teachers use Truzme in class, how to fit it into a lesson or an assignment, and what it does (and doesn't do) with student data.

For teachers

2026-09-24

Project code

The open text format for truss models. The Project code panel, the format, and every field.

Reference

2026-10-11

Connect your app

Import and export Truzme Project code in your own tool: where the format lives, and how models get in and out of Truzme

Reference

2026-10-11

Just a couple of guides so far — more are on the way