Flange Web Bolt Separator

'CUSTOM.BOLTSEPARATOR' is a bolt custom property which can be called in reports to check the bolt is attached to flange or web. One use case for this is to find number of tapered washers to bill out based on count of flange bolts. It checks only three profiles for this. Those are 'I', 'T', 'C' and 'U'.

How to Install

Download FlangeWebBoltSeparator_ver.No.tsep from Tekla Warehouse. Install tsep to the required version. The lower version which support is 2017.
The Dll is installed to ..\Environments\common\extensions\custom\properties. A sample report (Flange_Bolt_Separate.rpt) also kept as part of this installation. This is installed to ..\Environments\common\template and ..\Environments\india\template. The users using environment other than India and if their Tekla Structure version number is below 2019, they need to check the role and if it is not reffering common, then need to copy the .rpt file to their respective environment folder\template or to the model folder to list it while try to create reports.

Usage

'CUSTOM.BOLTSEPARATOR' is custom property created for bolt groups and which can be called in reports. The Row Type should be bolt group. 'CUSTOM.BOLTSEPARATOR' report either as a string or integer value.

Integer Values	Description
0	unknown bolt (Bolts not attached to 'I','T', 'C' and 'U' profiles)
1	flange bolt
2	web bolt

String Values	Description
UNKNOWN	unknown bolt (Bolts not attached to 'I', 'T', 'C' and 'U' profiles)
FLANGEBOLT	flange bolt
WEBBOLT	web bolt

Sample Output

• Open Tekla Structure model. Click on reports.

 

• click on 'Flange_Bolt_Separate' report

 

• Create report by clicking 'Create from all' button. Output is as shown below. Here 'CUSTOM.BOLTSEPARATOR' called below 'Holes on' header.

   

Limitation

Works for 'I', 'T', 'C' and 'U' profiles only.