Category: Tekla API
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Extracting Bolt Distances of Single Part Drawings (Beams) With an Output In Excel – Part 2 (Tekla Open API)
In the last part, we left off having collected the relevant Single Part Drawings that we were after. Hopefully we have applied the correct property to filter out the ‘HEA’, ‘IPE’ and ‘CC’ drawings. We will now focus on part II – extracting the distance of the bolts from the beam’s start position. …
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Extracting Bolt Distances From Single Part Drawing Files With an Output In Excel – Part 1 (Tekla Open API)
Every now and again we obtain a request from our readership to tackle a problem. If it is of general interest to the public and given our commitments we do sometimes oblige. Here is one such interesting problem. We will tackle this in three parts, and will focus on part 1 in this blog post.…
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Pick First Selection in the Drawing (Tekla Open API)
Imagine you are in the Tekla Drawing space. We want to dimension certain objects in the drawing. First we need to identify the objects that we want to select. Since the Tekla Closed Open API doesn’t have much of a picker exposed, we would be forced to select the objects we need before running our…
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Select Bolts From Tekla Model Based on its Tolerance using WPF (Tekla Open API) + Code Snippets + Video Demo
This is a repost from our sister site – I needn’t repeat it here, but it’s something that I’ve worked on, and which we hope to utilize to a greater degree when working with Tekla. Anyways, you can get the full blog post if you click this link here. Thank you for stopping by. Video…
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How to Programmatically Select Objects in the Model (Tekla Open API)
Background: What are we trying to do? We have programmatically identified some model objects that we want to select in the model – to attract attention to the user and to allow her to easily identify all such objects. In this particular case we will be creating some beams. And then, we will select those…
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How to Get Parallel Grid Line Points (Tekla Open API)
What is the task at hand? So I get some phone calls the other day – people complaining. They want changes. Yet again! Why can’t these people make up their minds! That means I have to get off Facebook, go back to my code – which I hopefully haven’t forgotten, and I have to…
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Copying From Object To Object – Tekla Open API (Code Snippets + Video)
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…
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Dimensioning Bolts in a Tekla Drawing – Tekla Open API – (Demo + Code snippets)
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.…
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How to programmatically insert Reference Models into Tekla (Tekla Open API)
Wouldn’t it be handy if we could programmatically insert reference models into Tekla? Well you can now do so quite easily. Here is the code which does the hard work. (You will of course add the appropriate references and directives): And if you want to see a video demonstration, here it is: Inserting XRefs into…
