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How to open a Tekla Model
Open a Tekla model To open a tekla structure model multiple options are available as: 1. File> Open 2. Keyboard user input Ctrl+O. (Default tekla command) 3.Using the open icon shown as a folder image Either of the methods can be used to open a tekla structure model , but before moving to the…
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What does GroupBy do – Simple Explanation (Linq)
What is GroupBy meant to do – Simple Explanation As always we will try to formulate a simple explanation of what is really going on. Airport Imagine you are at an airport and (as always) there is a queue and planes are delayed. See below. What you will immediately notice is that all of the…
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Rules for shop welding Elbows to Stair balustrades
Shop Welding Elbows. If the pipe is going up then do not weld the elbow to the pipe. Leave extra length on the pipe. Fabricator will cut at site and weld. (Make it slip joint) If the pipe is horizontal then you can weld at one end. See images
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Why Bubble Deck?
Bubble Deck – What’s so good about it? It’s fast, really fast. If you can build something quicker, than translates into making money quicker. There’s a premium on speed. Less manpower Less manpower on site. That means less potential problems to deal with. Which eventually translates into money. Generally speaking, the problems and costs…
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c# .Net Autocad plugin – “Hello world” Walk through
There’s not much out there in the way of introductions. You’d have to wade through some manuals and it can be tedious. A simple walk through of how to get started. You would do well to record it at 1.5-x2 playback speed. Autocad .net c# Plug in – Hello World Example from Tek1 on…
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Checking the type of an Entity? (AutoCAD .net)
Ok, so you’ve got a bunch of entities in a collection. You only want to deal with circles. You need to iterate through the collection and consider only the circles. But how will you identify the circles from the other objects. Casting. You can cast Entity en = en as Circle And then you…
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Get SelectionFilter by block Name
It is very common that you will need to create selection filters for different types of blocks. Why repeat yourself? There is a very simple utility that I wrote that is amazingly handy for solving this very issue. Best part is that it accepts wildcards, so you can search for block references which, for…
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Convert ObjectID[] to ObjectIDCollections!
When dealing with selection sets we can obtain the object ids of the objects contained within. The method though, returns an array. But what if we want an ObjectIDCollection? We can simply pass the ObjectID[] array into the ObjectIDCollection constructor. Simple. The last thing you want to do is iterate through the…
