Category: Tekla API
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A Beginners guide to APIs
Is programming knowledge necessary only for a Software developer? You will find an answer for this question in this blog. With automation ruling the world, it is important for every business to adopt it into their workflows to stay competitive.People may encounter lots of issues and errors in day to day work which may affect…
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GRASSHOPPER- THE VISUAL PROGRAMMING LINK FOR TEKLA
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…
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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…
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Anomalies in the Way Tekla Rotates Beams
If you are dealing with the Tekla API, you have to watch out for the following gotchas: Anamolies in the way Tekla handles Rotations from Tek1 on Vimeo.
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Tekla Model Sharing
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. You as the main modeller decide to farm out member placements…
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TeklaInterop Minimum checks
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…
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Refactoring the Code – Printing Selected Beams to Excel – Part 3 – (Tekla Open API)
Let us now continue to refactor according to good design principles.
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Refactoring the Code – Printing Selected Beams to Excel – Part 2 – (Tekla Open API)
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…
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Refactoring the Code – Printing Selected Beams to Excel – Part 1 – (Tekla Open API)
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.…