Category: Tekla API
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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.…
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Write Selected Beam Members to an Excel File (Tekla Open API – Tutorial)
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…
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Extracting Bolt Distances of Single Part Drawings (Beams) With an Output In Excel – Part 3 (Tekla Open API)
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…
