Adding supported profiles allows Sync to determine the type of a part selected in the model and its properties. Once a supported profile is setup properly the part’s typical section can be created for export to an Eriksson project file and opened in the appropriate Eriksson design software.
Profiles and Properties
When a part is selected in Tekla Structures, the Properties tab displays the part’s profile name in the Profile field.
The properties of the profile are accessed by clicking the button next to the profile field.
The profile name and the list of profile properties are needed to create a Sync Supported Profile.
Profile Map
A Sync Supported Profile contains a list of the properties needed to describe the particular part in Eriksson’s design software. The properties of the Tekla Structures profile must match up to the properties of the Sync supported profile. This is called a profile map. A profile map relates the properties of a part in the Eriksson design software with values in the profile string in Tekla Structures.
A simple example is a rectangular column. In Tekla Structures a rectangular column’s profile string is comprised of the height and width of the column’s cross section. So a column with a cross section with a height of 24” and width of 32” would have a profile string of 24”*32”. Eriksson Column defines a rectangular column cross section by its depth and width. So the depth value of the column cross section is the first value in the profile string and the width value is the second value in the profile string.
Then, to setup a profile map for a rectangular column, the supported profiles property page shows the Depth property related to the index of 1 and the Width property related to the index of 2. This is how a Tekla Structures part’s profile string is equated to an Eriksson part’s cross section.
A more complicated example is a profile map for a double tee beam. A double tee has eight properties that must be input in its profile map.
The cross section for a double tee in Eriksson Beam has eight properties and they must be related to the values in the profile string. For example, the bottom stem width is the first value in the profile string so the profile map relates the property Botttom Stem Width to the index of 1.
Creating a Profile Map
There are two ways of creating a profile map from the Supported Profiles Settings dialog. Clicking the Add button will create a blank profile map that will have to be filled in from scratch. A new profile map can be created from an existing one by selecting it from the grid and clicking the Copy button.
Both methods will add a new row to the grid with a blank profile map or a copy of an existing profile map.