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 
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
@sebastian.lindholm thank you yor your reply. I’ll look into these materials.
Hi Sebastian, are there any way to loft 2 profiles (with different parameter, but number of point is equal) into a beam
Hi, give this update a go:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13YGUPndAQqHMRPwjyDoSNfd6L04vAS0J?usp=sharing
There’s a new component called “Multi-Section Profile” that will accept up to 10 section outlines to create a fixed profile with multiple cross sections.
-b
Wow, I really appreciate your vigorous contribution you had put into 
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Wow, I didn’t see that coming. This component opens up new possibilities. Thank you, Sebastian, for your continued support and for making our work as engineers so much easier.
Hi Lindholm, I checked your recent great update, but “Tekla” Tab in Grasshopper canvas menu
New update
Hi, the Tekla menu item should still be there
Is this missing when the Grasshopper UI is opened through Rhino, or through the Grasshopper Component in Tekla? I think some older versions of the GH Component might have had this issue.
I also see the “Drawing Link” menu item is missing, is that because you’ve removed it or is it related to the same issue?
-b
In the Rhino command section displays “Message: Could not load file or assembly 'Tekla.Structures.Drawing, Version=2024.0.0.0” but I don’t know what really happened after update new version of “Drawing Link” (maybe Olszewski will help figure it out). For along time lurking on forum, idk how to fix it. But I put Rhino into NETFramework and restart again and it works perfectly
If you still have problems getting everything to work together you could try this update:
In short, after installing 1.19 rename the drawing link .gha to .dll and put it in the Libraries folder. It should then get loaded together with the model link.
Cheers,
-b
