Month: April 2026

  • Precast Blogs

    Precast Blogs

    • Chalet 1 – White Horse Village

      We are proud to showcase our contribution to Chalet 1 – White Horse Village, a unique and technically demanding project located in a mountainous region. This development presented several engineering and detailing challenges, and our team was honoured to be part of the solution — delivering precision, coordination, and innovation from start to finish. Technical…

    • PREFABRICATED CONCRETE ELEMENTS

      (Temporary Fixing Inserts for As-Cast Element Tolerances) INTRODUCTION: To ensure proper alignment and structural efficiency in the handling and installation of prefabricated concrete elements by placing temporary fixing inserts within the allowable as-cast dimensional tolerances as specified in Australian Standard AS 3850.2:2015. Inserts for the temporary attaching of prefabricated concrete elements shall be placed within…

    • STAGGERED FERRULES PLACEMENT ON PRECAST PANEL

      The design drawings for one of our Precast Project we were working on suggests ferrules must be placed staggered as noted below. The Problem: However, these casting components, such as ferrules cannot be placed on both sides of a precast panel with a thickness of less than 250mm. This mainly causes ferrules to clash along…

  • Mount Alvernia College

    Mount Alvernia College

    Steel Esto,atopm
    Expert Take Off Service from Tek1

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  • Esplanade Brighton canopy

    Esplanade Brighton canopy

    TEK1 completed a canopy project for a prominent organization in Australia. The goal was to provide detailed support for steelwork canopies.

  • Navigate a million Changes?

    Navigate a million Changes?

    Meticulous Care – Expertise alone not sufficent

    Meticulous Care – Expertise alone not sufficent With many many changes, Mulitple site meaures, point cloud data, unless the processes are good and the care is meticulous, the knowledge and expertise will not count Street Address ATL Station State NSW Country Australia Modeler Ganesh Kumar

    When it comes to shop drawings and steel detailing, expertise, knowledge of software alone will not make it

    With many many changes, Mulitple site meaures, point cloud data, unless the processes are good and the care is meticulous, the knowledge and expertise will not count

  • Handling Complex Geometry – Ribbon

    Handling Complex Geometry – Ribbon

    Recently, we were awarded a project to detail a curved section on the bridge for a reputed organization in Australia. The geometry involved presented some unique challenges.

    From the elevation, the structure followed a non-linear zig-zag curvature, creating a dynamic and aesthetically driven form.

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  • .Net | Python Ruby on Rails

    • ByCoordinateSystems (i.e. the Tekla API method)? AlignCoordinateSystem (the AutoCAD .net API method)? What are they? What do they mean?

      What problem does it solve? I have some treasure, buried somewhere. I know how to get there from my town. This is great from my current location. But how will you get there from YOUR location? Without changing the location of the treasure, I can tell you how to get there, from your location by…

    • How to programmatically filter model objects, in a Tekla model, by Part Position? (Tekla API)

      Suppose you have a Tekla model and you want to programmatically filter for parts with a revision mark of abc/1. How would you do that? When I originally tried the code, I had a single Binary Filter expression for just the part Position Number. I made a fatal mistake – I had assumed that Tekla…

    • How to Debug a Tekla Plugin Without Restarting Visual Studio (Tekla Open API Tutorial)

       To my surprise, debugging is not a trivial exercise. Please watch the video to guide you on where to click etc. Source code – github repository of the tekla beam plugin. You need to follow the instructions listed here: https://developer.tekla.com/tekla-structures/documentation/debug-plugin-without-restarting-tekla-structures with the following notes and amendments: Add “set XS_PLUGIN_DEVELOPER_MODE=true” to the teklastructures.ini file and open…

    • How to Get Drawing Revision Numbers

      Couldn’t do it, because it’s not exposed. This is a hack that I used to circumvent:    

    • Tekla API – how to select model objects via a picker

      Pretty simple: just selects a simple model object    

  • Batch Edit a Part in Tekla Structures

    Batch Edit a Part in Tekla Structures

    TeklaStructures has a batch editing utility for Assemblies.

    However, if we have to batch edit parts there is nothing.

    Expert Steel Detailers demand Utilities

    Our detailers have demanded that we develop a utility to do batch editing of parts.

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  • Steel Stairs | Melbourne | Sydney | WA

    Steel Stairs | Melbourne | Sydney | WA

  • SHED | DARETON NSW

    SHED | DARETON NSW

    Darenton-NSW
    Darenton-NSW