Ways to turn on Pour Representation

There are 2 two ways from which , we can switch our display representation to Pour.

Let's discuss the first one:
1) Double Click in the active view to display it's view properties- Click on Display then

2)Then the display dialog box appears, from there change the presentation of Cast-in-place to Pours and click on modify button, apply and then OK twice

This shall switch the representation of parts to pour.

The other way around is

Clicking on Pour representation button on the pour toolbar to switch to pour view.

Concrete Stairs with Reinforcement

Hello everyone.

I have just started to implement tekla structures for my practice projects. I was in the process of adding reinforcement to my model. However, I just found that lower version of Tekla Structures (Prior to Tekla Structures 21.0) doesn't offer component module for Concrete reinforcement for Stairs, it has to be added manually using reinforcing bar or reinforcing bar groups. 

In the urge of knowing more of the latest version. I went to tekla site and discovered that it has got a plethora of new features. The main feature, is liked, is the improved interoperability with Autodesk Revit. And then it has got news ways for working with precast and reinforcement objects.

To know more, Read this article I got from news.thomasnet.com:

Trimble Improves Construction Project Workflow with Tekla Structures 21 BIM Software

Press release date: March 12, 2015

New Version Improves Industrial and Commercial Construction Project Workflows through Better Interoperability, Control over Drawings and Usability

SUNNYVALE, Calif., -- Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) today introduced Tekla® Structures 21, the latest version of its Building Information Modeling (BIM) software for the engineering and construction markets. With advancements in interoperability, drawing control, usability and performance, Tekla Structures 21 improves industrial and commercial construction project workflows across construction disciplines. The new version delivers benefits to structural steel and precast concrete designers, detailers and fabricators, concrete contractors and general contractors, and enhanced collaboration with Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) design engineers, architects and others.

"After a decade in use, Tekla Structures continues to further the evolution of BIM from an experimental to an essential part of designing, engineering and building all types of buildings and structures," said Risto Raty, executive vice president of Tekla and general manager of Trimble Buildings' Structures Division. "Tekla Structures 21 reduces the time between concept and construction by enabling more advanced project team collaboration and productivity--enabling free flowing communication between all project stakeholders for more efficient design and building processes."

Enhanced Collaboration and Workflow

Tekla Structures 21 is fully interoperable with popular industrial plant design software such as AVEVA PDMS and Intergraph Smart 3D. This high level of bi-directional integration speeds up and improves the transfer of model data by providing a higher level of detail, better information transfer and change management. Improved integration between Tekla Structures and Autodesk's Revit Architecture and Revit MEP allows for better collaboration, enhanced control and change management through Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) file exchanges. Tekla's automated model and drawing export function saves time and makes downstream workflows smoother. In addition, Tekla Structures improves import and export functions with Trimble® SketchUp.

Reference model handling is also improved, making collaboration over changes much easier and providing better control over change management with IFC files. Tekla's IFC change management allows for the effective detection, management and reaction to changes in IFC models, and allows reference models to be added to a list and grouped.

Raty added, "By providing tight integration with other popular BIM software--as well as our own analysis and design software Tekla Structural Designer--and incorporating deep support for IFC, Tekla Structures 21 allows project team members from all disciplines to work together to address potential problems during the modeling stage, when they can be inexpensively and expediently addressed. These process improvements pave the way for successful projects where everyone wins."

The platform-neutral IFC file format is a key component of Open BIM, a broad-based approach to the collaborative design, construction and operation of buildings based on open standards and workflows.

As a "Trimble Connected" product, Tekla Structures 21 leverages the Trimble Connect collaboration environment for design, engineering and construction projects. Based on Gehry Technologies' renowned GTeam((TM)) software acquired by Trimble in in 2014, Trimble Connect enables teams to access and manage project data via a cloud platform.

Tekla Structures 21 offers several other improvements and resources:

--  Drawing control: provides greater control over the drawings. It simplifies the processes of navigating, printing and viewing the properties of drawings. Users also can now give customized company-specific dimensions to their own standard parts, such as bolts and embeds. Tekla's view level control of dimensioning automates working with assemblies like handrails and cast units.
--  User-friendly modeling: improved direct modification makes modeling more intuitive and simple with "what you see is what you get" modifications. Drawing construction lines, circles and points and placing custom parts is straightforward, and editing the position is easy and immediate.

Two new services have also been introduced concurrent with Tekla Structures 21:

--  Tekla Model Sharing: a service allowing project team members to work on the same project from any location or time zone, for faster and more flexible project delivery.
--  Tekla Warehouse: a free online library of Tekla Structures modeling tools, intelligent parts and templates to help users achieve more efficient workflows and higher quality projects.

Availability
Tekla Structures 21 is available now. For more information and to download Tekla Structures 21, visit:www.teklastructures.com.

About Tekla
Tekla's Building & Construction business is part of Trimble Buildings, which is focused on technology solutions that improve collaboration, efficiency and accuracy across the Design-Build-Operate (DBO) lifecycle of buildings. Tekla drives the evolution of digital information models to provide greater competitive advantage to the construction, infrastructure and energy industries. Tekla has customers in over 100 countries, offices in over 20 countries and a global partner network.

Information on Tekla solutions can be found at:  www.tekla.com. Details about Trimble Buildings' complete DBO portfolio are available at:  http://buildings.trimble.com.

About Trimble
Trimble applies technology to make field and mobile workers in businesses and government significantly more productive. Solutions are focused on applications requiring position or location--including surveying, construction, agriculture, fleet and asset management, public safety and mapping. In addition to utilizing positioning technologies, such as GPS, lasers and optics, Trimble solutions may include software content specific to the needs of the user. Wireless technologies are utilized to deliver the solution to the user and to ensure a tight coupling of the field and the back office. Founded in 1978, Trimble is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif.

For more information, visit: www.trimble.com.

Show Exact Lines

Show with Exact Lines mode.

This tool is used to elaborate details while modeling in Tekla Structures.
To view exact details of the parts. Follow the steps:

1) Select the parts you want with good quality details.
2) Hold Shift Key and Right Click. While Holding Shift key, click Show Exact Lines from Pop Up Menu (See Image)

To Deactivate Show Exact Lines Mode:
1) Reselect the parts you want with normal details.
2) Right Click and from pop up menu click on Show Exact Lines.
     

Single Bolts and Bolts groups

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BIMTECH – Tekla Structures

Bolts in Tekla.

1)     Single Bolt

In this example, we’ll add two single bolts at highlighted positions,

In order to do so, we’ll have to add points as references to define the positions of bolts

Add the points using Construction References under Modelling Menu.

After defining the points, we’ll have to define the properties of bolts. To do so follow the steps:

1)      Go to Detailing->Properties->Bolts

2)      Please make sure, In Bolt properties, the following settings are enabled, ensure that Bolt dist (x and y) are set to 0 & Shape is set to Array

3)      Click Modify, Apply & OK to save the changes

Now that bolt properties are set. The last step is to add bolts to the model, follow the steps to do so:

1)      Return to our Model, Go to Detailing->Bolts->Create Bolts

2)      Now Pick a Part to Bolt to (Main Part), In our case, it’s concrete Beam

3)      Now Pick a Part to be bolted (secondary part), In our case it’s Steel Contour Plate.  

4)      Now Middle Mouse Click to confirm selection, Now’s it’s time to pick position, Pick First Position for Bolt Origin and second position to define X Axis for Bolt.

5)      Whoa! Bolt Added! Now you can try for the other one.

2)    Bolt Groups

Creating of bolt groups are same as creation of single bolts except that under Bolts Properties, the following settings are enabled. See the screenshot below.

As you can see, Shape is set to Array only, but Bolt Dist X is set 0.00 2*300.00 that means 3 bolts are set at the distance of 300mm and Bolt Dist Y is set to 200mm that means in Y Axis direction, the gap between bolts will be 200mm

After setting the properties, addition of bolts to model procedure is the same.

Go to Detailing->Bolts->Create Bolts

Now Pick a Main Part

Then Select Secondary Part

Then Press Middle Mouse Button

Pick First Position and then Second Position, Bolts Group shall now be created

Attaching Parts, Detaching Parts and Exploding Attached Parts

Attaching Parts.

Tekla provides us the ability to attach parts to a part without they being close to one another. The attached parts are taken into account when calculating area, volume of the parts.

When Attaching, Detaching or Exploding Parts,
Ensure that the Cuts & Added Material Option is enabled in Display under View Properties.

To Attach a part:
1. Click Detailing --> Added Material --> Attach to Part .
2. Select the part to attach to.
3. Select the part you want to attach.
You can attach more than one part at a time. The parts that are attached do not need to
touch the part to which they are attached.

4. Click the middle mouse button to attach the part.

To Detach a part:
1. Click Detailing --> Added Material --> Detach from Part .
2. Select the attached part you want to detach.
You can detach more than one part from several different parts at a time. Select the
parts either by clicking them or by using area selection.
3. Click the middle mouse button to detach the part.

The detached part keeps the color it had as an attached part.

To Explode a Part:
1. Click Detailing --> Added Material --> Explode Part .

2. Select the part you want to explode, Click Middle Mouse button when finished

Modifying Length of Part, Changing Profile N Material of Parts

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1) Modifying the Length of Part

- Select the Part to be modified, ensure direct modification is ON

-Select and drag Handle Reference to the Desired Location

-As you can see Beam's length gets changed

2)CHANGING PROFILE

-Double Click on the part to access it's properties

-Click on Profile....Select to access Select Profile dialog

-From Here, we can change the dimensions of the profile (In this case - Height N Width), We can force Tekla use Industry Standardized values for profile dimensions by checking "Use industry standardized values ony"

-From here, Profile type can be selected

-Click on Apply, Then OK to Apply Properties

-Then Click on Modify, Apply and then OK to change the properties to parts

CHANGING MATERIAL OF PARTS

1) Double Click on the part to access it's properties and Click on Material.....Select button

2) Select Material from List and then Click on Apply N OK

3)Then Click on Modify, Apply N OK to agree with changes made.

Modifying Postion, Shape of the Part

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1) To Modifiy the posistion of the part

- Select the Part (Left Mouse Click)

- Press Ctrl + K if you cannot see the Mini Toolbar near Object

- Click on Move Icon on minitoolbar

- Modify the settings

- Incase you encounter round selection dial, click a sector in the dial to select a position and for rotation, click and drag the green knob. To change the Angle, Plane Offset or Depth Offset, enter a value in the corresponding dialog.

2) To Modify the shape of the part

- Ensure Direct Modification is On (Ctrl+D) or Tools->Option->Direct Modification

- Select the Part - See Below-

- Use parts reference handles to drag and drop it to another location.

3) To Modifiy shape using dimensions

- Ensure Direct Modification is ON.

- Select the part and dimensions appears

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-Holding Shift Key, Select Dimension Arrowheads

- Now using Numerical Input, directly type your desired length and press Enter

4) Modifying the Shape of the Polygon

- Inorder to modify the shape of the polygon, new corners has to be added and then modified using Direct

Modification. Follow the steps below

Select the polygon and from Detailing menu - Choose Modify Polygon Shape

Select An Exisitng Corner of the Polygon

Now Pick Corners on the same Edge

When all corners are picked select existing edge to end the command and create corners

NOW THAT THE NEW CORNER IS ADDED TO THE POLYGON

-Select the Polygon Slab again

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-Now Simply Drag the corner to another locations.

- To Delete the corner, Select the handle reference and press Delete Key

Introduction to Tekla Structures

Hello everyone,
                    This is Sohail Rizvi, the BIM-GEEK. After trying all the BIM application software, Now Im on to Tekla Structures.

Note: Im not an Expert, Im a Learner.

 Tekla is the most technically perfect BIM software I've used (Revit, ArchiCAD, etc.). In Tekla, We're not just creating a building model, We're making a perfect replica of a real building with all the reinforcement features, bolts and nuts, and minute details.

I've been having my hands dirty since 2 weeks on Tekla. I conclude that It provides a lots of tools for maintaining precision and accuracy throughout the modeling process. Lots of Snaps, Construction Referencing tools, Selection tools, etc paving the way to the development of a perfect building model.

Here, I'll share my learning process with you all for purpose of sharing with world and for my mutual revision support for learning.

Thanks.