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How Tek1 solves the problem of Ordering Items in Precast Panel Detailing Projects (Precast)
Counting Items is difficult Ordering parts in precast panel projects is tricky. You need a BOM (Bill of Materials). You need to know what you need and how much. When there are thousands upon thousands of parts – that can be a very tricky endeavour. Why should you bother counting inventory? It all comes down…
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Connection Side Mark on Dimension Lines (Tekla Tips)
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…
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The Dangers of Mirroring In Tekla (Tekla Tips)
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…
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What is a lifter? What is a tail bar? Why are they required in precast panels? (Precast – Lifter Series: Part I)
Precast panels are heavy. Cranes are used to lift the panels into place into their appropriate place. Because the mass involved is significant, it is very important that all the components of the lifting system are properly engineered and designed. If this is not the case then the panel could fall – and that can…
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How to Avoid Trouble in Building and Construction Projects (Part V)
We continue our series on how to avoid trouble in building and construction projects. What is required in order to have a successful construction project? Building and construction is necessarily a collaborative endeavour – there are many elements that need to come together in order for it to work successfully. First and foremost you need…
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How to Avoid Trouble in Building and Construction Projects (PART IV)
How to choose an architect? We will now focus on architectural competence in those post – particularly on the tools they use. My invective is necessarily harsh on architects at certain times: bad architects are the bane of the industry, and are part of the reason why building and construction is notoriously expensive. Ask around and you’ll…
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Demo: Select (Panel) Lines which are Open or Closed (Precast, AutoCAD .net)
Sometimes we have a need to identify – and quickly – lines which are open and lines which are closed – especially prior to running any operations on those lines involving regions. Here is a demo of a little plugin I wrote. It goes through the modelspace and finds all the line segments which are…
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How to Easily Compare Precast Panels in AutoCAD (Precast)
Suppose someone makes a change in the layout but forgets to do so in the shop drawing (and vice versa). If you move a cast in plate, and if it’s actually produced and taken to site, then you have a big problem, and a big cost. How are you going to identify the differences…
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Demo – Create Revit Panels Directly From AutoCAD Panels (Precast)
This is a demo of my latest plug-in which demonstrates a proof of concept – i.e. a MVP (Minimum Viable Product). The programming was a little trickier than normal – because we are not using the .NET API, but the COM Interop API and the Revit API – something which I have not really explored…
