A series of blog posts exploring the Tekla API. Code examples, explanations and (where relevant) videos will be provided.
Ever wondered how to automate the processes in modeling of steel structures, increase efficiency and accuracy. Grasshopper has got all the answers. Grasshopper is a visual programming interface like the Dynamo we saw in the previous blogs. It is built in within the 3D modeling software called Rhino. Tekla has released a link which enables […]
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 […]
Tekla has got model sharing with latest releases. However, nothing like that exists in previous releases. Now with API plugin from Tek1 you can share member placements on earlier versions. There is no Lic fees to for model sharing to be paid to Tekla. We will also charge you but much less than what Tekla […]
Friends, there is no substitute to reading the documentation. The most up to date version of this is located in our Team Drive – but here is a local copy nonetheless. AutoCAD-Tekla-Interop-Documentation Following minimum checks should be carried out for interop The member-schedule CSV file has the all the layer names in the cad files […]
Let us now continue to refactor according to good design principles.
Ok, so we’ve done some significant refactoring. We’ve considered a lot of things. Some things still to be improved: Naming, Better utilization of the ClosedXML library – because our techniques are quite primitive right now. Testing (this really should be done first, but no matter). Further refining the code according to SOLID design principles. Here […]
We will attempt to do something which is seldom done or discussed in Tekla code samples: and that is the very important issue of refactoring code. 1. Start with Tests. The first thing you need is a good suite of tests. That way you will know whether something has gone wrong or not. […]
What is the task at hand? The user selects some beams. We then want to collate the following information into various Excel spreadsheets: Name Profile Length and finally Weight We want two views: the first aggregates the beams by their name and finish, and the second merely lists all the beams selected with the information […]
In the last part we left off having obtained all the bolt distance and placing them in a domain object. In this instalment we will try to export all that data into an Excel Spreadsheet. Please note that the following code is untested – unfortunately there was a lightening storm in Melbourne which short circuited […]
In the last part, we left off having collected the relevant Single Part Drawings that we were after. Hopefully we have applied the correct property to filter out the ‘HEA’, ‘IPE’ and ‘CC’ drawings. We will now focus on part II – extracting the distance of the bolts from the beam’s start position. […]