Variable cross section beam

Hi!
I have a case where I need to create the top surface of a road in Tekla. I have a few different cross-sections of the road. I created a loft between these sections and sent it to Tekla as an Item.

I also thought about creating a couple of beams with variable cross-sections. However, creating parametric profiles in Tekla is pain.

Is there any way to create variable cross-section beams via Grasshopper?
@sebastian.lindholm, is it possible to implement such component in Live Link?

Hi Aleksander,

Parametric profiles are not currently on the radar. I’m not really sure exactly how that would work either, needs some thought :thinking:

For profiles with complex constraints it wouldn’t necessarily be more intuitive to use Grasshopper, or even work at all - see e.g. this post about constraint solving: Geometric constraint -- Line tangent to circle - #11 by DanielPiker.

If fixed profiles with multiple cross sections is enough that might be easier to pull of.

Cheers,

Sebastian