Category: Material Take off
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Smooth Start: Step-by-Step Guide to Installing Tekla Structures with Environment, Catalogue & MTO Setup
Whether you’re reinstalling Tekla or setting it up on a fresh system, getting everything aligned for our internal workflow – including the Material Take Off (MTO) process – is crucial for smooth operation. Here’s a complete, easy-to-follow guide to installing Tekla Structures, configuring the Australasia environment, and setting up our Effective MTO DLL for seamless…
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From Missed Details to Valuable Lessons – A Take-Off Journey at UTAS Stadium Redevelopment
Scope of the Project We were initially requested to prepare a material take-off and model for the UTAS Stadium Redevelopment project. The scope clearly included handrails and balustrades for multiple areas. Jobs like this are inherently more complicated than standard steel take-offs. They often require: Example: In other jobs like Respect Care Avonlea, the scope…
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Memo 44 – Formatting Required for MTOs (Checklist for Material Take Offs)
Key links: Please supply checklist and special notes with every take off report you complete. What is the purpose of an MTO? The Actual MTO report: (a) Full Material List (b) The second: Excel – Material List – which shows all sub-totals. (c) IFC file. (d) db1 file (e) and if applicable, your .dwg line…
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Tek1 RFI System
Here is a preview on what is cooking in our kitchen. This is one of the feature which have built into the system to save a huge amount of time trying to avoid duplicate file downloads. The principle is simple and the execution beautiful. Saves us a huge amount of time. The entire RFI system…
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Internal Processes
Please find below the processes we expect all staff to follow: Document all instructions in writing. Why? Clients may call on the telephone. Communication may be confused. People say the wrong lengths, the wrong drawing numbers, and they might be working of the wrong revisions, and people hear the wrong things. If you receive instructions…
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ESTIMATION MODELS AND TAKE OFF
Tek1 has developed plug ins with IntelliCAD based systems to create take off models from PDF drawings. The PDF drawings are brought into the intellicad based cad systems. Columns and Beams are modeled over the PDF drawings. This method is significantly faster than undertaking blue beam takeoffs. The accuracy of the take off is much…
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.dwg based Take off with custom Plug ins
Tek1 has developed .dwg based plugins which talk to Tekla to carry out take-off efficiently Take off is completed in .dwg based Cad systems very similar to modeling in Tekla. For BIM model the model is converted to Tekla Reports can be taken either from .dwg system or Tekla. Right now reports are being taken…
