Bolt Position
Not version-specific
Tekla Structures
Environment
Not environment-specific
The Bolt position allows user to get the global co-ordinates of all the selected bolts in the model. Useful to identify bolts for each level based on global z value. This makes erection easy.
How to Locate
‘Bolt Position’ will be available in the component catalogUsage
Click the icon in the component catalogImage
Then select bolt group in the model for which you want to inquire co-ordinates.If bolts are inside component/connection please use select objects in component selection.You can also select multiple bolt groups. After selecting bolt groups, click on Get Coordinates button.
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Then it will display co-ordinates in the window as shown above.
Sequence of data displayed will be as below.
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Additional Information
You can also save this data directly to file. Just Click on Save to file button. It will open Save as dialog box (as shown below).Default path will be your model folder. Just give the filename you want with extension .csv
e.g. BoltPositions.csv
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You can open that file in excel for your further use.
Excel output
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