Author: admin
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Advance Steel Macro – To place Members
I’ve created a macro to help create Advanced Steel Members, given a particular spreadsheet file. You are welcome to download and use it – see here. Unfortunately, I don’t have a demo video for you so: Please read the documentation / manual.
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How to Get Bolt Information From A Tekla Part (Tekla Open API)
Given a Tekla Part (regardless of how it was obtained, we want to obtain the bolt information. We can do so as follows (see the hello world example):
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Advanced Steel Tool – Convert AutoCAD lines to Advanced Steel Beams
Why bother with this tool? Because drawing Advanced Steel Beams is very cumbersome. If you have a CSV file you can draw AutoCAD lines and conver them with a fairly simple macro. Everything is open sourced, so you can fork or submit a PR if you require. Here is a video demonstrating this: If you…
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How to programmatically create bolt list reports from selected model objects (Tekla Open API)
Reports can be generated fairly easily, manually. But how do you do it programmatically using the Tekla Open API? Please see below for a code sample: Programmatically Extracting Report Values Now, if you want to generate the values programmatically, in memory, and then process them somehow into an excel output, consider the following code sample…
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How to Create a Curved Beam using the Tekla Open API (c#)
The key to this is to specify a chamfer value, and at least three points using the PolyBeam class. You must also provide a profile type that Tekla understands – otherwise you’ll get a bunch of straight lines. Here’s some basic code to get you started: You should be able to easily import, into Tekla,…
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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…
