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One of the main advantages of\u00a0Tekla Structure is ability to get full necessary info about any part of model in couple clicks. I really appreciate this\u00a0thing but all default tools has some disadvantages.<\/p>\nOne of the main advantages of\u00a0Tekla Structure is ability to get full necessary info about any part of model in couple clicks. I really appreciate this\u00a0thing but all default tools has some disadvantages.<\/p>\n
For example default Inquire<\/em> return complete info about selected Entity, but about only one item per time, and only after user request. Custom Inquire<\/em> – from Tools<\/strong> menu – is mach more flexible, but also – only one item, and \u00a0there is no way to get UDA.<\/p>\n Organizer tool from the same menu – is pretty cool. But at the same time it’s pretty slow, and could freeze model for couple minutes.<\/p>\n Reports, is awesome, but not interactive at all and require special skills and time to get used to with Template Editor.<\/p>\n Let’s make our own custom Inquire, and it’s qute easy with C# and Tekla Open API.<\/p>\n In one of previous articles was provided Tekla API Envents example<\/a> from Tekla OpenAPI reference. Why not to make macro based on this feature?<\/p>\n All what we have to do is:<\/p>\n Simple, and this macro could be downloaded under cut:<\/p>\n http:\/\/cadsupport.ru\/en\/upload\/CADSUPPORT_CustomInquireTool.cs<\/a><\/p>\n If you do not now where to put it, and how to run\u00a0you could look here:\u00a0how to work with tekla structure macro script<\/a><\/p>\n So now lets take a look on script it self. It’s based on example which was provided before in article about\u00a0Tekla Events<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Most interesting part of a scripts is represented in Events_SelectionChangeEvent()<\/em> method. Here we grab all selected items from model in manyO<\/em> enumerator. Then going through each element, and if this Entity suitable for us get some properties.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Additional example of code One of the main advantages of\u00a0Tekla Structure is ability to get full necessary info about any part of model in couple clicks. I really appreciate this\u00a0thing but all default tools has some disadvantages. For example default Inquire return complete info about selected Entity, but about only one item per time, and only after user request. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[16,17,38,28,21,25],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programing","category-tekla","tag-macro","tag-programming","tag-tek","tag-tekla","tag-tekla-script","tag-teklaapi"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
Tekla Custom Inquire main method<\/h2>\n
void<\/span> Events_SelectionChangeEvent()\r\n {\r\n lock<\/span> (_selectionEventHandlerLock)\r\n {\r\n Tekla.Structures.Model.UI.ModelObjectSelector selected = new<\/span> Tekla.Structures.Model.UI.ModelObjectSelector();\r\n Tekla.Structures.Model.ModelObjectEnumerator manyO = (selected.GetSelectedObjects() as<\/span> ModelObjectEnumerator);\r\n string<\/span> txt = string<\/span>.Empty;\r\n while (manyO.MoveNext())\r\n {\r\n string<\/span> GUID = string<\/span>.Empty;\r\n string<\/span> POS = string<\/span>.Empty;\r\n string<\/span> UDA = string<\/span>.Empty; \r\n if<\/span> ((manyO.Current as<\/span> Part) != null<\/span>) \/\/change for Assembly, Bolt, or whatever. <\/span>\r\n {\r\n var<\/span> pp = (manyO.Current as<\/span> Part); \r\n pp.GetReportProperty(\"ASSEMBLY.GUID\"<\/span>, ref<\/span> GUID);\r\n pp.GetReportProperty(\"ASSEMBLY_POS\"<\/span>, ref<\/span> POS);\r\n pp.GetReportProperty(\"ASSEMBLY.MAINPART.USERDEFINED.SOME_UDA\"<\/span>, ref<\/span> UDA);\r\n txt += GUID + \"; \"<\/span> + POS +\"; \"<\/span>+UDA+Environment.NewLine; \r\n }\r\n else<\/span> if<\/span> ((manyO.Current as<\/span> Assembly)!= null<\/span>)\r\n {\r\n var<\/span> pp = (manyO.Current as<\/span> Assembly); \r\n pp.GetReportProperty(\"GUID\"<\/span>, ref<\/span> GUID);\r\n pp.GetReportProperty(\"ASSEMBLY_POS\"<\/span>, ref<\/span> POS);\r\n pp.GetReportProperty(\"MAINPART.USERDEFINED.SOME_UDA\"<\/span>, ref<\/span> UDA);\r\n txt += GUID + \"; \"<\/span> + POS +\"; \"<\/span>+UDA+Environment.NewLine; \r\n }\r\n }\r\n SetText(txt.ToString());\/\/this method push result to form in separate thread\r\n }\r\n }<\/pre>\n
\n<\/p>\n\/\/ here we can check any object which inherite ModelObject interface bolts, welds, beams, assembly, etc<\/span>\r\n if<\/span> ((manyO.Current as<\/span> ModelObject) != null<\/span>)\r\n {\r\n var<\/span> pp = manyO.Current as<\/span> ModelObject;\r\n string<\/span> GUID = string<\/span>.Empty;\r\n string<\/span> POS = string<\/span>.Empty;\r\n string<\/span> UDA = string<\/span>.Empty;\r\n string<\/span> DP = string<\/span>.Empty;\r\n pp.GetReportProperty(\"GUID\"<\/span>, ref<\/span> GUID);\r\n pp.GetReportProperty(\"STANDARD\"<\/span>, ref<\/span> POS);\r\n pp.GetReportProperty(\"ASSEMBLY.MAINPART.USERDEFINED.UDA\"<\/span>, ref<\/span> UDA);\r\n txt += GUID + \"\\t \"<\/span> + POS + \"\\t \"<\/span> + UDA + Environment.NewLine;\r\n }<\/pre>\nMore articles about Tekla OpenAPI and Macro<\/h2>\n
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