I searched through the forum for answers and the Grasshopper components, but did not find a way to get the internal openings of a plate into grasshopper. The deconstruct Plate component just returns the border curve.
I did look adding the plate in Tekla into the shape catalogue in Tekla and read this into Grasshopper, but I could only find a way to select it from the catalogue as a string name not the geometry and would rather not create extra geometry in the file.
Hi Matt, in case you’re talking about part cuts in a plate you can get those boolean objects with the “Get Children” component. If the booleans are of type plate you can then deconstruct them as plates to get the outlines. Or use the Convert to Brep to get their solid shapes.
For completeness, you might have other objects like bolts that are children of a plate. Then you’d need to filter the children e.g. like this to avoid an error:
