Tekla 'Auto bolt' component doesn't work in Tekla 2019i

Hi all,

We pinpointed the issue with Patrycja so posting the solution here in case someone needs it.

When using the Auto Bolt component/plugin with only one input part, we need to duplicate that input part.

This is because some Tekla plugins like the Auto Bolt component expect a list of objects as input, but can still be used with only a single part as input. In that case the single part should be input as a list of one object, not as just a single object (the TS API is fussy about this). I can’t think of a good way to differentiate between the input modes through Grasshopper though, so we need to force a list by duplicating the input object.

You can’t tell up front what kind of input is required through the API, but one clue you could get is if you examine a manually inserted component and notice the input type is N Objects.

Which admittingly isn’t very obvious.

Cheers,

Sebastian

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