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How to avoid trouble in building and construction projects (Part II)
(a) Watch out for situations where people start building from unapproved drawings. You don’t want to get involved in such projects. Friends, we’ve been in the game for almost a decade. We know the ropes when it comes to building and construction projects. Builders put pressure on fabricators to meet deadlines. Fabricators put pressure on…
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Designing Bent Members
Designing Bent Members Consider the below member: notice how it has two bends in it. When designing such a member the detailer needs to be aware of how these members are made. Check out this video for a beautiful explanation: That is just how handrails are produced. The steel members are bent…
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How to add markup to Tekla BIMSight Model
Key Points Select Plane Add Markup Add Note Make the note Public
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Block Definitions and Block References Explained
What is a block? What is a block reference? And what is the difference? Let’s use an analogy to help illustrate the concept. *Birth certificates are like your block table record, photocopies of your certificate are like block references.** (A) Block Definitions Imagine you have a really important document like your GREEN card/birth certificate etc.…
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Tekla–AutoCAD: Interoperability Tool
Tekla – AutoCAD Interoperability Tool Tekla licenses are pricey. About $30k + maintenance per license. That’s expensive. And if you had 10 licenses, or perhaps even 50 licenses, what if I told you that you needed: 30-50% less licenses than you currently hold? That’s a huge cost saving. If you only need 5 licenses, then…
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Converting Engineering Components to Detailing Components (Tekla API)
Has anyone every given you a model created form an engineering license and asked you to produce shop drawings from it? Well that’s incredibly difficult to make possibly. Because you can’t easily number parts. So I created a macro which makes life much easier (and faster) too. Here is a demo of how it works:…
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Tekla Open API Resources
Firstly, Tek1’s Open API Blog posts here. The Open API Reference. This was produced by Trimble and is the go-to place for information about classes and methods etc. There are some code examples also given. You can download it all from here. There are some basic code examples in there which is well worth investigating.…
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How to run AutoCAD Commands and Macros Without a Dialog Box (AutoCAD tips)
Have you wondered how you can run AutoCAD Commands without a dialog box. It is simple – add a “-” in front of the the command name For example if you type in “layer” as a command into your Autocad command line your layer dialog box opens up. But if you type in “-layer” there…
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ERP for Precast
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Here is where we are going with precast ERP System. This will be a cloud based ERP system, based on Dot net, Entity frame works, and Ruby on Rails. Hosted on amazon elastic cloud, it is fully scalable, highly available system. Think of how much administrative work you can save on ordering scheduling, etc. We…