What is the task at hand?
- The user selects some beams.
- We then want to collate the following information into various Excel spreadsheets:
- Name
- Profile
- Length and finally Weight
- We want two views: the first aggregates the beams by their name and finish, and the second merely lists all the beams selected with the information listed above (length/weight etc).
WARNING: The code is very dirty. There’s a lot of repetition here. And I’ve gone up some cul de sacs incorrectly. But that’s ok. It’s code which works. We can worry about refactoring for another day – in fact, that will make for a very good exercise. Here is a link to where I document the refactoring process.
I’ll walk you through the code:
Here is the full code unencumbered by commentary:
thank you for the tutorial ,can you please show me how to get the quantity of the part mark, I use GetReportProperty property to get “PART_POS”,”LENGTH”and “AREA” but i cannot figure out how to get the quantity
Hi Mahfoud,
I do not know the answer, and I cannot easily get access to my Tekla API documentation – that will take some time.
If you get the answer please do let me know so i can make a post out of it.
rgds
Ben
This is how to get the quantity
int num = 0;
GetReportProperty(“MODEL_TOTAL”, ref num);
I get it from(See Comments)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Vn9cPDzOI