Linking Tekla Structures with Robot

Question:
Does Tekla Structures link with Robot?

Answer:
Yes, Tekla Structures has a native link to Robot. The link requires that Tekla Structures and Robot are installed on the same computer.

Download the link
Robot link installation packages can be found in Tekla Warehouse.

Hints & Tips
The Get results in the Robot Link 1.6 is able to take into account profile and material changes in Robot for the existing members, but does not take into account any other updates to the Robot model, for example members that are added, deleted or moved. Make sure that you are not using grouping in the Optimization results dialog box unless you want the same profile or material change done in Robot to be applied to identical model objects in Tekla Structures.

Import command in the Robot Link 1.6 is able to import members which were created in the Robot session. This was not possible before and so it allows starting modeling in Robot and transferring to Tekla Structures. 

There is no change management currently in the export functionality. Using the Export command always creates a new Robot .rtd file and own modifications will disappear from the previous Robot model.

Set the following advanced options in the user.ini file for the Robot link in order to receive forces and changed profiles from Robot:
set XS_AD_GET_RESULTS_FORCES=TRUE (the default is FALSE)
set XS_AD_GET_RESULTS_DESIGN_VALUES=TRUE (the default is TRUE)

Troubleshooting
If you get an error message after executing the analysis calculation, please check your ROBOT Millennium licenses for the Robot Open API activation (Robot Office Analysis >> Tools 21.0 >> Authorization - settings >> Report)

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Problems with Robot 2009 SP1 & SP2
Transferring the information from Robot to Tekla Structures is not working correctly when using Robot 2009 SP1 or SP2. According to the information exchange report, it seems that information between these two software has been transferred correctly, but when you investigate the objects in Tekla Structures more closely you will notice that the information was not updated correctly. No error messages or log file entries are displayed, the only indicator of the problem is that “transferred” information is missing in the Tekla Structures model.
Solution: use Robot 2009 without the service packs or use some other version of Robot. Tekla Structures product development unit is communicating with Robot developers in order to fix the problem.

General - Special considerations when loading the 64-bit version of Tekla Structures.

In some cases the IFC and cis/2 A&D links are not loaded to your computer. As a solution, we have built a separate installation for loading these links. If you install the 32-bit version, or have loaded the A&D links from an older version of Tekla Structures, these links are available.

We have had problems installing and using AnalysisExport1.exe since version 16.0, so now Tekla Structures AnalysisExport1.exe can be installed with a separate installer.

Some details:

• User needs to install x86 or x64 version depending of which Tekla Structures version you use. Difference is where registry data is written in Windows Registry.
• AnalysisExport 1.0 works with all Tekla Structures versions (at least Tekla Structures 15.0 onwards).
• AnalysisExport is installed always to 32-bit ProgramFiles folder and user cannot choose the folder.
• AnalysisExport brings CIS/2, IFC2x2 and IFC3x2 available in Tekla Structures Analysis Model properties, Analysis application drop down list.

64-bit installation - TeklaStructures_x64_AnalysisExport_10.exe