Hi Sebastian.
I tested the new bolt insertion component a bit and it works well, but I found an issue. Namely, when I insert bolts via a points as a “LIST”, Tekla converts the bolts into an “ARRAY” and correctly fills in offsets such as Dx, etc. The problem appears when the component is modified (for example changing bolt size)— then the offsets like Dx are reset to zero and the bolts are inserted in an incorrect position. What could be a problem?
Example.gh (12.6 KB)
Hi Chris,
You’re right that Tekla automatically is converting these XY lists to arrays if it’s possible, and then subsequent modifications from GH as the old type might mess that up. There doesn’t seem to be an API override for the behavior but we’ll try to address this in the next update.
For now, I think the easiest solution is to move the start point of your insertion line to where the actual bolts start, so that the offset and position fields don’t need to get populated during the conversion.
Cheers,
-b
