This is a blog to give tips and tricks to Tekla users. We will bring you the best and the latest in Tekla and structural steel detailing
How to manufacture the T Bar is a question which frequently comes up. The various options are Make T-Bar from plates. (Involves welding plates together) Cut from UB. (Might include wastage) Buy Standard T-Bar. (May have its own constraints like minimum quantities) Up until now we were detailing T bars as fabricated using T Plates. […]
Analyze load transfer before blindly applying connections. Here is a markup from the engineer, which is right. The load from the UB350 beam is not transferred to SC7. Hence 4 bolts not required.
What happens if you don’t get it right? Have you ever fallen down a flight of stairs? I hope not! But from experience I can tell you that it’s not a very pleasant one. I slipped as I was walking down – I fell supine, hard, like a hammer on a nail, bang into the […]
How to avoid the error? How to avoid grating and chequred plate errors being wrong , due to the view being wrong. We have a copped a few of these errors where the chquered plate (or grating) was drawn upside down. How to counter measure: add orientation part cut on the plate The way to […]
What is the task at hand? We want to make the Copy Object To Object command more efficient There is a nifty little command – little oft used in Tekla. The “Copy Object To Object” command. It’s handy, but it could be made better: all the model objects have to be selected individually. That can […]
We want to create a little drawing plug-in What we want to do is to select and dimension all the bolts to a particular grid line. Here’s how it should work: * The user selects a group of bolts. * The user selects a gridline. * Dimensions are drawn from the Bolts to the Gridline. […]
How to add a connection side mark on Tekla drawings in structural steel drawings. Switching on the connection side mark on the part properties in Tekla drawings sometimes can crowd the drawing. You can select the Plate side marks “Type” to “Automatic” to set the connection side marks on the dimension line itself. One additional […]
As a general rule: Avoiding Mirroring objects in Tekla — if the handles will be inverted that is. Why’s that? Everything is reversed. All the handles are flipped. Down is up and up is down. Front is back and vice versa. It is thoroughly confusing and a bit of a nightmare. More over, Tekla doesn’t […]
What is the purpose of this lesson? The purpose of this lesson is for you to: understand what a stud wall is, and understand the importance of putting holes in the beams in order to allow for the erection of stud walls. What is a stud wall? A stud wall is made up of: A […]
Experts in AS in Stairs/Handrails/Ladders We’ve done a lot of work on Australian Standards – both public and private access. We specialise in Steel Detailing – and have a special focus on stairs and ladders. Since we deal extensively in this area, we require all our staff to be thoroughly versed in the Standards. Consequently, […]