On 15 April 2024 Trimble published an article on how developers use Tekla Structures as a platform for other design disciplines. It features ParaMatic as an MEP design tool built on Tekla Structures.
What the article says about us
- It calls Marhinus du Plessis, our CEO, a self-taught BIM expert who has designed mineral-processing plants his whole career.
- He started building a piping add-on with the Tekla API himself, to bring piping into Tekla Structures.
- We have customers in South Africa, and mineral-processing customers in Australia, Turkey and the United States.
- Marhinus says some tasks take under two minutes with ParaMatic, against hundreds of hours with traditional tools.
- Francois De Jager, our Systems Design Engineer, explains that our code reads component catalogues from an online database and draws them into Tekla. Our draftsmen use Trimble Connect on site.
- Next on our roadmap at the time: fire reticulation, plumbing and wastewater, then cable racking and ducting.
"There's no limitation to what you can do through the API."
Marhinus du Plessis, in the Trimble article