Hello
I need to modify multiple plates in Tekla Structur (red color on screen). Each such plate has boolean parts at the beginning or at the end or at both ends. How should I prepare the tree to use the “Cut Part” component to properly modify the boolean parts and properly call the “Cut Part” component for each modified boolean part.
I prepare my script but it`s not working properly.
Did you get this to work? If you graft the plate inputs and put the cutting parts into different branches, where the content of each branch corresponds to one plate, it should be fine.
Cheers,
-b
Hi Sebastian,
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to run it in a way that works correctly. There’s always some trimming missing. I think the issue might lie in the fact that for a given part, I’m retrieving the cutting elements, and then performing a section through the retrieved cutting elements (which I’m using for the modification), and at that point I lose the link to the main element.
In general, the purpose of this script was to modify the plate contour by applying a 1mm offset tolerance (instead of the current 0mm).
I see… without having access to the definition I’d note that in general you might get issues if several cuts are chained. E.g .if you’re using a part that’s been cut to cut another part, you might not have the correctly modified geometry available in the second step (depending on e.g. the solve order of the definition). A second output from the cutting components containing a reference to the original (now modified) part would probably help here.
Also if Delete is set to “true” your cutting part will only be available for one step of the chain - the delete should be on the last Part cut component.
Thank You Sebastian for your help. I will try to modify my script.
My present script
Boolean_Part_Modify.gh (15.5 KB)