Tekla offers customers and their service partners a program to help develop any integrated or automated solution using Tekla Structures
Building Information Modeling (BIM) software.
Interoperability with other applications
Tekla Structures software includes an open Application Programming Interface (API) that enables third party applications to integrate and communicate within the same modeling environment.
Tekla Open API™ can be utilized by referencing open API assemblies with different types of applications.
Users can create separate executable applications:
- Microsoft® .NET applications (Windows®Forms or Console)
- COM applications utilizing COM technology
- VBA macros utilizing COM technology (e.g. Microsoft® Office)
Users can apply built-in applications:
- Macros executed from command menu
- Plug-ins executed from component catalog
Tekla Open API also makes it possible to
- Record and run user interface actions
- Create tools to automate the modeling process
- Insert details to drawings based on information from another vendor's file formats
- Integrate with other software (Office Tools, Analysis & Design, MIS and ERP)
- Create new application functionality or information through the RFI manager
See developer license program