Import reinforcing bar Points from Tekla to Grasshopper

[bbalbastre]

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know how to import the points which generates a reinforcing bar from Tekla to Grasshopper ?

I know there are two commands Convert To Brep and Convert To Mesh that I can use to do obtain a brep or a mesh, howerver what I am looking for is for the points which generate the rebar.

Is it that possible using Tekla API?

Regards!

[sebastian.lindholm]

Hi Bbalbastre,

If you’ve only got single bars, you could get the control points (the ones in your pic) with the Expand Object component like this:

If you need the physical points on the rebar itself (that take into account cover thicknesses etc) you can use the GetRebarGeometries method (https://developer.tekla.com/tekla-structures/api/22/15004). This is also needed to get the points of individual bars in e.g. a rebar group.

Here’s a C# component that uses this method to obtain the polylines of individual bars from any rebar type:

GetRebarPolygons.gh (14.4 KB)

pic:

Cheers,

Sebastian

[bbalbastre]

@sebastian.lindholm

Thank you for your answer, incredible what you did!

BTW I tried to find the position number of the bar when numbering in Tekla but I couldn’t. Do you know where I can find it?

Regards

[sebastian.lindholm]

For checking the number in Tekla you can right-click the bar and choose “Inquire”, there should be a row called Position.

You could check the number in GH as well by fetching the REBAR_POS report property like this:

(this probably wouldn’t return anything for Rebar Sets though, there you need to query the individual bars)

Cheers,

Sebastian

[bbalbastre]

@sebastian.lindholm

Thank you so much, I was looking for the position number in Grasshopper and you provided me the solution. You help me a lot.

Thanks again!

Regards