Lifting Inserts

Tekla Structures

Not version-specific

Tekla Structures

precast

concrete

embed

lift

lifters

Environment

Not environment-specific

Purpose and description

Lifting Inserts extension adds lifters in the form of custom parts to walls, beams, columns, and slabs. You can pick which custom part to add and specify how many and where to place.

System requirements

Environments: US Imperial, US Metric
Languages: English

Installing

Add step-by-step information on how to install the extension.
To install the extension:

Download TSEP package from warehouse here
Double click or Open downloaded TSEP and follow install instructions for version(s)

Using Lifting Inserts

Extension is by default installed to Applications & components catalog in group "US Extensions".

You can activate from Applications & components catalog
Click on wall, beam, column, or slab to insert

You can use more than once on the same part if needed. E.g. Top lifters versus Face lifters. Make sure to select a valid custom part in dialog settings and set desired part face for lifters to be applied to.

This exension is not recommended for strand/rebar lifting loops in tops of beams or columns. Use Lifting Anchor (80) for column top lifters or beam strand/rebar lifters. There are preset standard files saved away for those situations, (80) is included with installation - not an extension.

Settings

Property	Description
Component Name	Name of custom part that contains lifters
Component Settings	Save As setting file to use for selected lifters
Face	Part face to place lifters on (Front, Top, Back, etc..)
Rotate Inserts	Yes to rotate customer part lifters to have X-axis to point towards COG, No to place aligned to input part
COG Type	Assembly to locate lifters about Assembly COG to include combined other parts or Assembly to consider only COG of selected input part
Quantity	Placement pattern that specifieds how many and patter to palce lifters (E.g. 2x4, 1x4, 2x2)
Placement	Percentage to use input part length/height multiplied by a perfect factor to determine distance from edge or cog to place lifters. Distance to specify the distance specifically from edge or COG to place lifters
Spacing	Whether to place lifters outwards from COG or in from edges of input part
COG Cube	Whether or not to create a small 1/4" cube in model in part/assembly where COG is. This can be used in model/drawings to know where COG is located.
Component Direction	Horizontal if handles follow short axis of lifter part or go along part sureface they are inserted into. Vertical if they go along lifter long axis or go into part surface they are inserted into.
Switch XY Direction	Inverts local XY coordinate system for lifter placement along part face where lifters are inserted. Affects directions of travel for offset values a, b, c, etc..
Switch Z Direction	Inverts direction of lifter into plane normal of part face they are inserted into. Can be used to insert lifters facing outwards from face.

Face Offsets

Can be used for each individual lifter to offset its location from specified to avoid blockouts or other embedded objects. These can also be used to turn on/off each individual lifter. Offset direction is based on input part coordinate system (Dx will follow handles of panel, beam, etc..). Dy will be face direction 90 degrees from Dx axis. Dz is always in thickness direction or depth.

Orientation

Orientation of the lifters distance/percentage values is based on the input part coordinate system. Values a, b, c, d are in orientation of part x-axis (start handle towards end handle) orientation. The values e, f, g, h are in part face direction 90 degrees from x-axis forming face local y-direction.

Additional information

Custom Part Lifters

Custom parts used need to be defined as a single assembly (if made of mulitple parts) to work properly. Rebars need to be attached to lifter part, secondary parts need to be added to primary part or welded.
You may get "Add to cast unit" information message stating "Concrete and steel parts cannot be added in the same assembly level. Do you want ot add steel parts as subassembly?" - Choose, Yes. You may want to check the option to "Do not show this message again."
Include any rebar needed as part of custom part lifter assembly. Make sure you reports and drawing templates are setup to show rebar with proper non-embed class numbers on all parts.
The handles of the lifters can be vertical or horizontal on lifter custom part, choose switch in plugin dialog accordingly.

Face Placement

At each lifter position the face is searched to determine where to place the lifter using a line and solid collision check. If this check fails a red box is drawn around the lifter position using temporary graphics (goes away with window redraw). Typically this occurs when there is a void where lifter is specified to go, this results in the lifter placed in the the middle of the part (thickness, z-axis value).

This can be fixed by using Face Offset values for the lifter to move it away from the void area.