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If you enjoy trying to spot bugs in the API, with unexpected behaviour: checkout the Tekla API.

The following does not move the object. Can you discern why?

 // set up second beam_moved_geometrically
 Beam beam2manuallyTransformed = beamFactory(startPointFactory(), endPointFactory(), "2"); // orange class string            
 beam2manuallyTransformed.Insert();

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Watch out!

Another one of those "gotcha's" by Tekla.

I got bitten. I couldn't work out why this was failing. And then I realised. They're mutating. Watch out!

        [Test]
        public void TestMutationOfPointsWhenApplyingMoveOperations()
        {

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Key Take Out

WorldCoordinateSystem

The world Coordinate system is a Coordinate System with Origin defined as (0,0,0) and the XAxis defined as (1,0,0) and the YAxis as: (0,1,0).

FromCoordinateSystem

FromCoordinateSystem(beamCS) is the same as ByCoordinateSystems(beamCS, worldCS)

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A hello world program.

Ensure you have the Australasia environment loaded. Or otherwise change the profile string to a profile in your environment

Model model =  new Model();

if (model.GetConnectionStatus())

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public static List<string> getProfiles()
        {
            List<string> profiles = new List<string>();
            CatalogHandler catalogHandler = new CatalogHandler();

            if (catalogHandler.GetConnectionStatus())
            {
                ProfileItemEnumerator profileItemEnumerator = catalogHandler.GetLibraryProfileItems();

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Key Methods:

public class TeklaModelCreator : IBeamCreator
{

    Model model; 

    public TeklaModelCreator()
    {
        this.model = new Model();

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        public double getHeight(string profileString)
        {
            LibraryProfileItem libraryProfileItem = new LibraryProfileItem();
            libraryProfileItem.Select(profileString);

            List<ProfileItemParameter> parameters = libraryProfileItem.aProfileItemParameters.Cast<ProfileItemParameter>().ToList();
            double height = parameters.First(p => p.Property.ToUpper() == "HEIGHT").Value;

 return height;

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// insert the usual references


Document doc = Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument;
Database db = doc.Database;

using (Transaction tr = db.TransactionManager.StartTransaction())
{

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A method to create a rotated dimension using the AutoCAD .net API

protected void drawDimensions(Point3d dimensionPoint, Point3d point1, Point3d point2, double rotation)
{
    using (Transaction tr = db.TransactionManager.StartTransaction())
    {
        BlockTable blockTable = tr.GetObject(db.BlockTableId, OpenMode.ForRead) as BlockTable;
        BlockTableRecord modelSpace = tr.GetObject(blockTable[BlockTableRecord.ModelSpace], OpenMode.ForWrite) as BlockTableRecord;

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Sometimes you will want to query an object's properties - that you found in a drawing. How do you do that?

Let us suppose we have a single part. Then we need to:

• Get the Drawing
• Get the part identifier
• Select it in the model

SinglePartDrawing singlePartDrawing = (SinglePartDrawing)drawing;