Set of Grasshopper components for interacting with Tekla drawing area.

Based on great job done by Sebastian Lindholm from Trimble available in Tekla Warehouse.

Originally, drawing part was not under the scope of link. I hope that as a Tekla community we can fill this gap - LetsConstructIT!

You have to point .gha file with drawing components to Rhino. It can be done in exactly same manner as the Model link. List of available releases of Drawing link can be found at Releases section.

Video instruction can be found on: YouTube

Grasshopper-Tekla Drawing Link is provided as-is under the MIT license. For more information see LICENSE.

• Params
  • selects drawing object
  • selects drawing part (which can be mapped to model object)
  • selects point in drawing
  • combobox for Tekla drawing colors
  • combobox typical part view types
• Drawing
  • creates assembly drawing of model object
  • creates cast unit drawing of model object
  • creates general arrangement drawings
  • returns currently opened drawing
  • closes active drawing
  • opens pointed drawing
  • returns size of pointed drawing
  • returns model object which is the parent of drawing
  • lists views inside drawing
  • deletes drawing
• Drawing List
  • lists all drawings in model
  • lists only selected drawings from drawing list
  • gets drawings related to model object
• View
  • creates arbitrary model view (2D or 3D)
  • creates part view (Front | Top | Bottom | Back or 3D)
  • creates detail view
  • creates section view
  • gets view childs - drawing objects
  • returns section/detail views connected to provided view
  • returns size and anchor points of view
  • returns view properties
  • move view with specified vector
  • refresh view (restore Tekla output)
• Parts
  • converts drawing part to its model counterpart (enables inter Drawing/Model workflows)
  • returns view where provided drawing object resides
  • selects drawing object, used before running drawing macros
  • gets selected drawing objects
  • deletes drawing objects
  • modifies drawing part
• Geometry
  • transforms point from global coordinate system to pointed view coordinate system
  • transforms point from global coordinate system to local coordinate system
  • transforms point from local coordinate system to global coordinate system
• Attributes
  • setting line type and color
• Misc
  • runs model or drawing macro already saved to file or created ad-hoc (right click to select mode)
  • return center of gravity of provided model or drawing part
• Mark
  • inserts level mark
• UDA
  • get user defined attribute for drawing object
  • get all user defined attributes for drawing object
  • set user defined attributes for drawing object
• Plugin
  • drawing plugin atomic picker input
  • set of atomic picker inputs
  • creates drawing plugin