Tekla tools for the parts you design again and again.
If your team designs a part by the same rules every time, we can program it. Our conveyor gantry tool turns a few inputs into a full model, with the bill of materials, CNC cutting files and fabrication drawings.
A full conveyor gantry from a few inputs.
Enter a few inputs and the tool models the whole gantry, straight or inclined, with idlers, pulleys and belting. We customise it to suit your designs.
- A LOD 400 model of the gantry
- Bill of materials, with weights and quantities for costing
- CNC cutting files
- Fabrication drawings
You can try several layouts quickly, which helps most when you price a tender.
Automated conveyor
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One tool, from belt line to LOD 400.
The model starts from the belt line, and everything else is driven by that line. Each level adds detail, until the conveyor is ready for fabrication.
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LOD 200 The building blocks: the main objects and shapes.
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LOD 300 Broken into smaller pieces, with the supports and walkways placed.
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LOD 350 Real structural steel members, ready for the design checks in analysis software.
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LOD 400 Every connection, idler and packer modelled. Ready for NC files, drawings and purchase lists.
Round tanks and cylinders, ready for fabrication.
Our round tank tool turns a few inputs into a tank with nozzles, fully modelled and ready for fabrication. Our cylinder tool works the same way, and gives you the LOD 400 model, bill of materials, CNC cutting files and fabrication drawings.
- Round tanks with nozzles, customised to your design
- Cylinders, from a few inputs
- Buildings, mechanical parts and more, built to your rules
Automated round tanks
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Your design rules, turned into a Tekla tool.
Every dimension on a repeat part is a decision your draughtsman makes from experience, company standards or past sales. We write those decisions down and program them.
Capture your rules
We write down your products, standards, proportions and dimensions in tables.
Build the database
The tables go into a database that the tool reads.
Program the tool
We write the tool on the Tekla Structures Open API.
Run it
Enter a few inputs, and the tool models the part in Tekla for you.
Program driven, not modelled by hand.
Parametric modelling takes time, because it is still manual. Our tools are program driven, so they go straight from your inputs and rules to the model.
"There's no limitation to what you can do through the API."
We build our tools on the Tekla Open API, and ParaMatic is on Trimble's Tekla Development Experts list.
- Formulas inside a model break, and often only the person who built the model can edit them.
- Our code sits outside Tekla and builds the model from nothing, so it can follow any rule or calculation you give it.
- Small programs call each other: a bracing connection written once is used everywhere.
Or start with the Plant Design Suite.
Piping, cable supports and tanks, in the same Tekla model as your steel.
ReleasedParaMatic Piping
Route, design and detail piping complete with its supports natively inside Tekla Structures.
ReleasedParaMatic Cabling
Route, design and detail cable support systems natively inside Tekla Structures.
In developmentAutomated tanks
Automatically model and detail tanks within your Tekla model by defining a few parameters.
Got a part you design again and again?
Tell us what the part is and the rules you design it by. If it follows a set of rules, we can automate it in Tekla.