Categories in Organizer

Tekla Structures
2023
Tekla Structures

Categories in Organizer

You can categorize your model in location categories and other type of categories that you can create based on your needs using for example object properties.

  • Using location categories, you can create a location breakdown structure and divide the model into projects, sites, buildings, sections and floors. A project contains all the objects of the models that are selected in the category properties, either the Tekla Structures model or reference models, or both. Within a project, a model object can belong to only one lowest level location category at a time.

    Data related to location categories (for example, floor, building) is only written to the highest level assemblies. For example, a precast cast unit inside the first floor will receive Floor 1 as a property, but the rebars in the cast unit will not.

    Organizer always creates an uncategorized category in a project for objects that cannot be included in any other category based on the location definitions you have made. You can modify the definitions to include the objects to location categories.

  • Property categories allow you to add user-defined attributes (UDA) to model objects. Within a property category, a model object can belong to only one lowest level category at a time.
  • Custom categories are created based on the rules that you define. Objects are added to the categories based on these rules. You can also create categories manually without rules.

Note:

You can define whether Organizer uses pour units or cast-in-place cast units as the highest cast-in-place hierarchy level in the categories. To use pour units, set the XS_ENABLE_POUR_MANAGEMENT advanced option to TRUE and reopen the model. Then, click in the upper-right corner of Organizer to open the Settings, and go to the Synchronization tab. Select Pour units enabled to use pour units.

Organizer is fully synchronized when you close the Settings dialog box.

An example of a default category set in Organizer:

When you have included objects in the categories:

  • The number of objects in a category is shown in parentheses for location categories and property categories, and for lowest level custom categories.

  • The number of objects in a category and the total number of objects included in the category and its subcategories is shown in parentheses for custom categories, as shown in the image below.

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