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Creating Combined Cross-sections in Tekla Structures is easy but because many of us are so used to the part add feature, this functionality has not been commonly used. Using this feature, you can create parts that consist of two or more different cross sections. In order for this to work, the number of points to be used in cross-sections must match; otherwise it would be impossible to combine.
Rey Ople
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Foreword
Fall Greetings! A lot has been going on with Dowco and many of you have been aware of recent developments particularly in regards to Fabtrol and our recent software sales expansion in our India Office. Ewen has a summary of events ongoing in this issue of ConneXion and Rob Forester, Fabtrols Arvin Eugenio National Sales Manager, has a brief operations update on this page. Tero has elaborated a few vignettes which is always a worthy read while Toms article may answer many questions on using 64bit Technology and gives an intro to Tekla Structures 15.0. Dont forget to browse through Reys article on Page 4 on Creating Combined CrossSections. Also by this time, some of you have already returned your hardware locks and have received your FLEXnet entitlements for your licenses. A recent addition to our team, Dave Berryman, has an article on Page 2 which has quite a bit more information on these types of licenses which Im sure many of you would find useful. We are also happy to announce the addition of Abdelmalik Abdel El Ouahabi to our Tekla Structures Support Team. Fluent in both English and French, Abdel is based out of our Laval office in Quebec and will be supporting many of our customers on the East Coast as well as perform Tekla Structures Training in French at that office.
The picture (picture 1) on the right illustrates end cross sections of a part. After defining the cross sections (say cross1 & cross2) you can then add/create a profile in the catalog to join them together.
Ive listed the steps below using Version 14.0. 1. Add profile in the catalog (Modeling > Profiles > Profile Catalog). Right-click in Modify Profile Catalog dialog and select Add profile. Modify the profile as shown below; Profile name: (say) COMBINED CROSS SECTION Profile type: User-defined, fixed Profile subtype: cross1 (select from drop list) Equivalent type: Rectangular hollow sections or U profiles 2. 3. Click Update Add the second cross section to the profile by clicking Add button in the Select Profile dialog box. Cross section number should now be 2 as shown in picture 2.
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Check Profile and make sure Profile subtype is correct. Profile name: COMBINED CROSS SECTION Profile type: User-defined, fixed Profile subtype: cross2 (select from drop list) Equivalent type: Rectangular hollow sections or U profiles. Click Update > OK then OK to confirm/save changes to the model. Note: The Relative location of the cross sections is 0.00 and 1.00 respectively. If a third cross section is to be added, the Relative location of the middle should be in between these two values, e.g., 0.500, 0.700, etc. Also, if the cross sections are to be in a specific location, then cross sections need to be defined in such order. cross1=0.00 cross2=0.50 cross3=1.00 4. Apply the profile. picture 3
FabTrol Systems, Inc. Proud new member of the Dowco Group of Companies
All of us at FabTrol Systems are excited to now be part of the Dowco family. Our flagship fabrication management software solution, FabTrol MRP, currently has an install base including 22 countries. With the synergies of Dowco/FabTrol, we are building a reseller foundation that will allow us to enter new markets that have traditionally been difficult to service and support due to time zone differences.
If the steps were followed correctly then you will see in your model something similar to Picture 3. Try it and have fun! For more information about this functionality, or to send your comments, please email TeklaStructures.Support.CAN@dowco.com.
Rob Forester
The steel industrys growing commitment to BIM, modelbased estimating, and other application data exchange initiatives provide perfect opportunities for our companies to leverage resources to positively impact our customers and the industry as a whole.
US Recommended connections
Because Tekla Structures comes with a large set of custom components, finding the best components from this group is sometimes difficult with the Component Catalog, not to mention the trouble of using old connection toolbars! Tekla has added a nice help for detailers into 14.0 localization, a set of components which are typically used in North American jobs. Users can find them easily in new models by typing recommended to the Component Catalog search field, and a nice set of basic components for typical U.S. projects will be available. This information is stored in the ComponentCatalog.txt file in the C:\TeklaStructures\14.0\environments\usimp\system folder. Copying this file to the system folders of previous versions will also work.
LMTools
is installed when you install the license server (LAT) is always run from the computer that hosts the entitlement certificate can be used to start and stop the license sever too correct some problems that may occur can be run from a work station computer to give a Status Inquiry about the servers license usage can be run to determine if you have used the correct server name and other diagnostics
Server Address
when you type in the server address at startup (ver 14) this information is saved to system registry, not to a file therefore, in version 14 the user.ini is not edited for the XS_LICENSE_SERVER_HOST path The usual address formats are 27000@myservername (27000 is the default TCP/IP port number for the license service) @myservername, @ipaddress or @myserver_ipaddress
Switching to FLEXnet
Releasing Dongle keys is always a concern because you may still work with models that are based on version 12.0 and 13.0 which were not FLEXnet capable. Versions 12 and 13 can all be upgraded to FLEXnet with a simple