All right, thank you for that introduction. As mentioned, my name is John Recknagel, Precast Application Specialist with Tecla Structures. And for today's webinar, we will be discussing tackling your Precast BIM pain points with Tecla Structures and Trimble Connect. Let's get started. All right, so how the flow of the webinar will go for today is we will start off with a few minutes doing some slides. Then we'll jump into the Tecla Structures model. Then we'll switch over to Trimble Connect. And then we'll finally end the webinar with some questions and answers. The learning objectives for today's webinar. The first is speed, showcasing how to utilize Tecla Structures to drastically improve your processing times for larger models. The second learning objective is warp and camber. We're going to review technology that allows deformed shapes, such as double Ts and inverted T beams, to be placed in the model and at the same time have undeformed shapes on your production drawings. Third, to automate piece drawings, produce automated piece drawings with a real-time connection to the model. And four, intelligent rebar and connections. We'll demonstrate how Tecla intelligently recognizes boundaries of precast concrete shapes to allow the detailer to automate rebar and connection placement. The final three learning objectives are showcasing the entire systems approach. So we're going to review how Tecla utilizes a systems approach to model entire floor or wall systems versus one-by-one member modeling. Six, we're going to jump into customization, demonstrate how Tecla tools can be customized by the end user to automate and drastically speed up functions that are typically done manually. And we'll finally conclude with collaboration. We'll showcase how Tecla structures model can be shared with other project stakeholders via Tremble Connect and Tecla model sharing. All right, so starting off with speed, we have a project from Clark Pacific. This is the Stanford building. There's four residence halls here, all ranging between six to 10 stories, over 1.8 million square foot of building space, over 14,500 precast panels. All four buildings are all located within the same Tecla structures model. As you can see from the small little chart there, you have buildings A, B, C, and D, and with a project total of over 2.1 million parts. That is just an insane number of parts, all housed within that same Tecla structures model. There's really no other way to do it. This project had to be done in Tecla due to this need of having speed and performance. So here you can see some pictures on the right of the Stanford project and it being installed. Second today, the warp and camber. So with Tecla structures, you're able to actually create these deformed shapes, such as warping and cambering, all in the model with just having one element. There's no need to model flat pieces on top of one another just to create your production tickets. So you have one piece that is cambered, warped. You have all of your rebar, lifters, side connectors, everything all tying into one another and everything all following the boundaries as they should. Third, we have our automated piece drawings. Everything that you see on the screenshots here are automated from Tecla structures. So every view, every dimension, every call out, everything is automated and placed on the drawings with Tecla's AI. There is no human interaction with these three tickets you see on the screen now. You obviously have that real-time connection to the model. So as things are changing and updating in the model, your piece drawings are updating accordingly. And then of course, you have your automated rebar bending schedule per CRSI standards and your bill materials populated as well. So as you change or modify plates, bars and whatnot, those schedules and bill materials will update as well. Next, we have intelligent rebar and connections. So Tecla has intelligent rebar that's actually going to adapt and conform to the concrete extents. So as you're placing these reinforcing bars, it's automatically holding cover. It's automatically pulling the CRSI bar bends that are appropriate for that bar size and whatnot all for you automatically. You have the availability to change the bar number, cover and spacing, all the standard rebar parameters via a nice 2D dialog box versus having to do all that in the 3D model space. And connections, of course, within Tecla structures are placed with our custom components, which you can insert with just either one click or maybe just a series of clicks. You can insert these intelligent and parametric connections directly into your model. So number five, we have the entire systems approach. So with Tecla structures, you're actually modeling in your entire floor bay. You're modeling around all of your holes and openings. You're modeling in all of your sloping points for drainage and warping all as an entire system. So you're not doing one by one member modeling, modeling one T, copying it 50 times, warping each individual T. That's not how you do it in Tecla structures. You model your entire bay. You set your drainage points, your high and low points for cricketing and whatnot, all within the same element. And you let Tecla handle all of the warping and drainage and everything for you. You're not modeling in flat pieces or modeling in two pieces on top of one another just to create your production tickets and things like that. You're just modeling everything as one bay and letting Tecla handle all of those deformed shapes. What's nice about the systems approach also is you can build in intelligence and parametrics here. So if you have maybe a hollow core layout with certain fillers that your plant does not like to produce, you can bake that in. At certain lengths and spans, you can have the profiles automatically adjust and get deeper. So you can bake and build in a lot of those intelligence with our systems approach tools. Six is intelligent rebar and connections. So everything that you see on the right-hand side for that inverted T beam was placed with a single click of the reinforcing, all the stirrups, top bars, bottom bars, ledge bars, everything like that was placed with a single click. And then you control all the spacing parameters, bar sizes, everything like that via that nice 2D dialog box you see on the left. Seven is collaboration. So here we have Trimble Connect. This is your way to take your model with you on the go, whether that's on an iPad, a tablet. Trimble Connect really transforms the decision-making here. So Trimble Connect is an open collaboration tool that connects the right people to the right data at the right time. You have that central link to the model. That way you can make sure that all the project stakeholders have the most up-to-date information at all given times. You can insert in reference models, you can attach documents and pictures, the whole nine with Trimble Connect. So Trimble Connect here, connected and constructible workflows. So here we have status sharing. So you're able to actually get that real-time status of any of your elements, whether it be if it's produced, if it's stored, if it's shipped, if it's been erected in the field, you can have that real-time link. So that way all of your project stakeholders can have that data right at their fingertips. Again, whether it's on their phone, tablet, or on their PC. Another very popular feature is views and to-dos here. So you can create all of your standard views within the model, save them away. You can also create to-dos. So a very good application for this would be let's say a QC manager goes out and notices some chips or spalls in a panel. He can open up the Trimble Connect model, directly attach some pictures to a certain piece, and then attach the appropriate engineer for the panel to go out and take a look at it. And all of that coordination and collaboration can all happen within Trimble Connect. It can house all of your documents and everything is within the cloud. And finally, we have Tecla model sharing here. This is our way to work from any location. So you can work whether it's coordinating with people in the same office, whether you have a remote office, working from home, traveling, you're working with a consultant overseas. You name it here, how this process works is Trimble hosts the model on the cloud and then everyone basically reads in and writes out these little packets of data. It creates for a very seamless process, a very fast process. And you can actually work offline on your model as long as you just connect to the internet to either do a read in or write out, then it actually saves a local version of the model on your PC. And then if you ever have any changes or anything that needs to be done to the model, you just would connect to the internet and just upload those small little data packets. So that way everyone can have access to that latest and greatest model. All right, that's gonna conclude the slideshow now. Let's jump into the model. All right, here we are within the Tecla Structures model. As you can see here, we just have a generic precast building here with some unfinished elements. During the webinar here, we're going to model in an elevator shaft in the middle, a stair shaft in the corner, some columns and spandrels on this right-hand side, and then a series of wall panels along grid line C. Now, before we jump in, I just wanted to showcase a couple really kind of cool and quick items here that can help make modeling easy within Tecla Structures. So starting off, just to kind of briefly go over the interface here, we've got a very intuitive ribbon-like interface. So you can basically just step through whatever it is that you're wanting to model. Over here on the side, you can import in reference models, IFC models. Tecla can actually convert PDFs into DXFs. So that way you can take those contract drawings, directly reference them in so they can become clickable, traceable background objects. Next, you'll see me over here on the side a lot during the webinar. This is our applications and components. These are these intelligent and parametric tools that Tecla has. Down here at the bottom, we have our selection ribbon. And then over here, you have your snapping commands. So starting off, I wanted to showcase how easy it is to create some views. We can actually create views along grid lines and just click Create. And Tecla will automatically create all of these views for you. So if I wanted to see what the view along grid five is, I can just open that view up and there is our view. What's nice about this view is you can just click in the background and create a drawing directly from this view. You can also take a look at a different one. Here's the view along grid A. Now these views are all parametrically linked and they're all 3D views, as well as they are 2D views. So you have the flexibility to work in either of those environments. I can also tile them either horizontally or vertically. And then I can also work in between them. So if I wanted to select on a spandrel on this nice 3D view, work on it, it's also highlighting in my 2D view as well. So you have the flexibility of jumping back and forth between these views. Another really nice tool that is often used is the clip plane. So I can just activate the clip plane and basically push and pull my way throughout the building. You can insert in multiple clip planes. So you can push for multiple kind of vantage points and you can just easily click on them and press delete. Another nice feature, when you're zoomed in close, you got a lot going on. You wanna just focus in on one item. We've got a couple of ways to handle that. You could show only selected. They'll kind of hide everything away just so you can have that focus in on whatever it is that you're trying to detail. We also have a very nice feature that if I select on this beam, I can say create view default views apart and this will create your standard drafting for views. So your end, your front, your top, and then your 3D ISO view. Again, these are all parametric and you can work amongst them. All right, let's get into modeling. We're gonna start off with this elevator tower in the center. So I can go back to my plan view over my applications and components under my PCI webinar tab. I have the stairwell and elevator shafts tool. I'm gonna activate the tool and I'm gonna control click off of this point. This will allow me to insert in a half inch gap on each side. Press enter and just like that, we have our elevator shaft going from bottom to top of our structure. If I enter into this tool by double clicking on it, this will bring open a nice 2D dialog box where I can control all the different parameters of this tool from wall thicknesses to level height to where the openings are located along the elevator shaft. This tool also, as you'll see in a minute, also works for stairways or stairwells as well. And now we can probably just add a little cap on the top. So I can just model in a slab, click on these four boundary points and the middle mouse. If you want to, right now our slab is protruding into our shape, but we can just press front for it to be just a precast elevator cap. Go back to plan view. I'm gonna load up that same tool again, except this time I'm going to activate the stairs. And now we're gonna come up here in the middle up here in the corner and drop in our stair shaft stairwell. So just like that, with those couple of clicks, you can see we have our entire stairwell in, all of our stairs modeled, our landings in and our cap on as well. Now with this tool, you have a similar dialog, but if we focus in on the stair and landing portion of it, you can specify exactly what your risers are, what your distances of your treads are, everything about your stairs can all be customized within the stair tool. You can even control which way the access is and kind of what that top or bottom landing situation looks like. With those in, let's go ahead and model in our column and spandrels here on this left-hand side. Activate our column and drop it in. Next, we're gonna activate our spandrel here. So I have my PCI spandrel and just basically clicking point to point and all the way through. There's our spandrels. I actually want this spandrel to extend here, so I can just grab this one handle and just drag it to the exterior of the building. Now, by default, this work plane right now is set up to model at zero, zero. So if I rotate around, you'll see these spandrels dropped in at zero, zero. You can actually set different work planes so that way you can model and drop in shapes at whatever elevation that you'd like, or you can simply model everything at zero, zero and then just move it to the respected elevation. So here I'm actually using the reference point from a different spandrel, and I can actually just select to move up in the Z, just like that. Just like that. Then I can activate my copy command and I know I have 14 foot floors and I can copy it straight up. So there's our side. Next, we're going to model in our wall along the backside. So to do that, we're going to utilize our systems approach and we're going to model in an entire wall segment here. So picking one end all the way through to the outside here, and I can actually right click and choose a snap point. So if I want to grab that perpendicular, just like that, and the middle mouse, and now we have this long wall segment here. And in just a minute, I'll show everyone how to chop this up using some of Tekla's automated tools. But before we do that, let's go ahead and model in our double Ts on this backside here. So go back to a plan view and load open our floor layout tool. Now, basically what I'm going to do here is trace our extremities for our slab section. So you can see, we'll trace around our elevator shaft. And I'm purposefully going to the center line of these beams because we have some tools that I'll showcase in just a minute that will help detail those out. So one final click here and then press middle mouse, and then this double T section will be modeled. So here's our double Ts. They dropped in where we wanted them to be. They dropped in where we would expect them to, down at zero, zero. So I can move them up by selecting on the top of the T and then grabbing on a similar T section over here, grabbing on that top point as well and moving it just up in the Z. So just like that, now we have our roof section. Now, a couple of things to take note of here. You can see that these Ts in the background look a little bit different and that's because I've applied some automatic detailing to this. So if we double select on our floor bay here, this will open up the floor layout tool dialog. And in here is where we can specify a number of different things. But starting off with the layer tab, you can have a series of layers. So if you wanted to model in a topping, insulation and whatnot, you can model all of that in. You can obviously set up your profile, material strength, how Tecla is going to number and everything all from here. Inside the general tab is where you specify your gap, your depth, how you want Tecla to line it up, whether it's from the left side or right side. Now, the advanced tab is nice because here we can set up some of those intelligent parameters, such as what those minimum angles are, if you have any minimum jam thicknesses around openings, if you wanna minimize this kind of finger detail here, you can set all the mins and maxes here, so that way you just basically click on your extremities, your boundaries of your slab system, and then Tekla will do all the layout work for you. We also have a cut section here, so I'll be utilizing this in just a moment here to show you how we can make cuts around columns and whatnot very easily. But if we cycle through to the default offsets, here's where you can basically control your bearings on your ends or your erection gaps on the sides, you can specify all of that directly from a nice 2D dialog. Now the detailing here, this is what I was referring to. If we go to a more or less see-through view, you can see that these Ts are already all reinforced, detailed, they have their lifters and everything all in them. So I didn't have to go through and detail each one of these out individually, I just specify what component I want to utilize and basically just pick my points and let Tekla do all the heavy lifting for me. You can specify up to eight different details here, so that way as you're detailing, or as you're modeling, Tekla will do the detailing. You can also add cast-in-place filler for those one or two foot little strips that get left on the ends if you choose, and then user-defined attributes to attach data to push downstream. So next, let's go ahead and take a look at this bay over here. Now you can see we purposefully have our double Ts clashing with all of our columns. So what we're gonna do is we're just gonna click on our column, we're just gonna copy this name. This name is exterior column. I can enter into the floor tool dialog, and inside the advanced tab here, I can specify the exterior column as a part to be cut. And then right here, I can specify the gap. So one inch and one inch. So with those set, all I have to do is press modify, and Tekla will go through and automatically scan this floor bay and place those cuts accordingly. So you can see just like that, we now have nice gaps around all of our columns. Okay, next we're gonna get into cricketing effects. So one of the most common questions we've been getting asked recently is how Tekla Structures handles warping drainage, cricketing effects. So we just kind of hone in on this back slab here, and actually now it's on the front. And if I press D on my keyboard, that activates a direct modification. And now what that allows me to do is that allows access to all these handles here. So if I wanted to create a drainage point, let's say we're gonna hold B line constant, and A line is going to taper up and down for drainage and warping. So you can see we have a blue pick point here. I can just click and drag that point, let's say to grid two here. Now what I want to do is lock this to a outside here, outside of one of my double Ts. By doing that, it will create another point automatically here. So I can now drag that to my three line, and then to my nearest joint. That will automatically create another one. And I'm just gonna drag that to this joint. So just by doing that, now if I select the slab here, now you'll notice that I have these nice handles at all the points that I've moved. What this will allow me to do is I can select on them, and now I can just move special linear. So if I wanted to move this point, let's say down in the Z 13 inches, I can shift it down. I can grab this handle over here and move it down. So now we have our high and low points. We have this as our constant interior. So we actually have a cricketing, we have warping going on, all controlled as a systems approach as Tekla likes to call it. You're controlling all that on a systems level for the whole entire floor bay. There's no need to model individual pieces as we mentioned earlier, or pieces on top of one another just to generate your production tickets. Tekla's handling all of that on the systems level as you're modeling your whole entire floor structure. All right, next let's do some detailing here, sticking with the double Ts. Let's open up our double T seam component, select on the T on the left, then the T on the right, and then our joint that will place our shear connector here. Now what we can do is we can push this off the edge. So I'm gonna move this in my Y-axes. I'm gonna move it two feet off the edge. And then from here, what I can do is a copy special linear. This is similar to an array command. I can do five feet on center. And let's just do a series of, I don't know, maybe eight of them. And all I have to do is press copy and Tekla will go through and place those accordingly. If I redraw my view, you can hone in here and see exactly what's going on. If I grab on one of these Ts here, we can also control camber and warping effects on the part levels as well. So as you saw here, this is a more systems level where you're controlling the whole entire floor bay. But if you want, you do have the availability to control this on the part level as well. So if I open up my settings over here, you'll see the deforming tab. And here is where I can actually insert in things such as camber and warp. So if I just put an insane number for camber, let's say 10 inches and press enter, you can see parametrically and dynamically, the tool is updating. All of those plates are shifting accordingly. They're following that shape geometry. Now keep in mind that this double T is also fully reinforced. All of the reinforcing automatically updates. The lifters follow suit. And everything is how it should be. There's no need to remodel anything, no need to reapply any tools or anything like that. You just continue to model and let the tool update for you. Next, let's go ahead and look at some of our columns here. So if I load up in my applications and components, I can load up my footing to column custom component. And all we have to do here is single click on the column, single click on the footing. And Tekla is doing a number of things for us here. Tekla is putting in the base plate, the anchor bolts, our pockets, and then also our DBAs and interior base plate for us. So very quickly, you can just pop those in with two clicks. You can also build and bake as much intelligence into these as you would like. So that way they're binding to planes and growing with different column sizes and all of that is absolutely possible. Next, let's go ahead and take a look at these spandrels. So right now we purposefully have our spandrels clashing into our exterior columns. What we can do is click on our column, one spandrel, two spandrel, and then middle mouse. And this is gonna go through, and let me just apply it to this bottom one as well. If we go to a see-through view here, we can take a look at what this tool is doing. This tool is doing a number of things. It's cutting out the column first and foremost. It's placing in bearing support. It's also applying our baseball bats here. Applying our baseball bats and embeds. All of our exposed edges of our spandrel are getting chamfered. As you can see, that's what this teal section is. And then also all of our bearing plates and supports here as well. So if we just continue to apply this to a couple scenarios, you can see how fast and responsive Tecla Structures is to apply all of that intelligence and parametrics all wrapped up in just a series of a few clicks. So there you have it. Those are all connected. Next, let's take a look at some of our beams and corbel support here. So to do this, I'm actually gonna utilize one of those clip planes here. Push my way inside the building. And now, with access to my inverted T-beams here, I can load open the corbel connection, click on the column, click on the beam. You can see the corbels are automatically dropped in for us. So very fast, very easy to drop these in. Now, what's nice about our tools like this, and here, actually, let me just apply the reinforcing one as well, and then I'll show you some of the added benefits here. So you can see, with this tool, with just two clicks, clicking on the column and then the corbel, we can add in all of our corbel reinforcements, all of our base plates and whatnot for that corbel. It's actually even adding in a stabilizer pocket for the top if you wanted to place an embed there also. We can take this same exact tool with it still activated, and now I can click on my left corbel and my right corbel in Little Mouse, and due to the level of intelligence that Tecla Structures has, it realizes that these should be one assembly now. So now it's just basically placing the corbel steel in there appropriately, so that way it's one assembly. Just like that. Now these tools, as I was saying, it's nice because there's parametric and bindings involved with these. So I can take this beam, and let's say that we had this beam modeled at the wrong elevation. I can shift it down six inches, and as I do that, you can see my corbel automatically updating, and all of the reinforcing following it as well. There's no need to remodel things or have to update things, go back. Everything like that is not necessary within Tecla Structures. You just model and let the tool do the updating for you. Continuing on the corbel front here for our inverted T-beams that are budding into our elevator shaft here, we have a wall component here, wall to inverted T-beam. So I can select on that, click on my wall, and then click on my inverted T-beam. That will do a similar connection here, where it's putting in the corbel, putting the reinforcing, but then it's also placing a pocket in the wall as well for added support. I can just continue placing that up here as well, and then also on the other side. Now, just for the sake of time, we won't fully detail this building out, but we'll get pretty close. All right, move that clip plane out. Okay, next, let's take a look at our wall panel elevation in the back. So we have this long wall panel here where we've modeled in the entire wall, 192 feet. This is, again, that systems approach where you're modeling in everything that you need. We have this wall layout elementation tool. If I load this up, what this tool will do is this tool will utilize parameters that you put in there and then apply it to the wall elevation. So for instance, this tool, you can tell it to cut the panels up by either length, number of panels, or by weight. So if you're working with a general contractor and they only have access to a certain ton crane, you can punch in exactly what that heaviest panel can be, and then that way Tekla will divvy up all of your panel joints according to that weight. Or if you wanna do by number of panels, this elevation only needs 12 panels, and then let Tekla do the math for you. Or if you have a standard bed width that you want all of your panels to come out to be, you can just punch that in here and let Tekla divvy out all of your panel joints. Another nice feature is the avoid openings. So if you have a series of dock doors or blockouts, things like that, you can specify what that minimum jam thickness is so that way you don't have any little sliver jams or anything going through your panel layout. All I have to do is say create from selected. Tekla will go through, scan the wall, and just like that, create 15 new wall panels for our wall segment there. So just like that, you can see I've specified a 12-foot panel to line up nice with our double T joints. Now again, if I activate that clip plane, push my way through the building, we can just hone in on these walls. Okay, first let's take a look at our base connections here. So we can activate our wall mini seam. Select on the foundation, select on the wall. Oops, had the wrong selection on. Select on the foundation, select on the wall, and then specify where we want that mini seam to be placed. So here we have our little view. So here we have our little V pocket. We can shift it off the edge, whatever distance we would like. Let's say 24 inches, positive X, press move. And then now we can copy these across the panel. So I can copy these in the X, maybe 40 inches on the center, and say I want two of them. So now we have our pocketed connections here. And what this tool is actually doing is it's placing a foundation embed. It's placing in our angle with tail bars, and then our erection loose plates as well. All right, next we're gonna activate our mini V. All we have to do is single click on one panel, single click on the next panel, and then specify the joint. And you can see right here the mini Vs have been placed. Click on them so they're a little more visible. By default it's gonna drop in three. You could customize tools like this to be able to control the spacing and quantity. I'm just gonna drop in another one. Click on panel width, panel width, and then joint. There you have it. Okay, next let's go into panel braces so we can activate our propping insert tool. Single click on the widths. Now you notice right now they are being truncated due to that clip plane, but after we toss a couple in, we can move that clip plane back. And really quickly if we enter into the tool, we can see the nice 2D dialog box to control what kind of component you wanna utilize into the panel face, the spacing of it, whether you wanna go by percentage based or distance based, all that good stuff you can control via the propping insert here. The next we're gonna do is look for our wall to corbel, double T to corbel here, so activate the tool. And then just by single clicking on the face, single clicking on the double T, you can see that these corbels will intelligently follow the stems and place them in accordingly. Just gonna drop a couple of these in for time's sake. And there you have it. So we basically have all of our supports in, we have our panels connected through the joint and then also through the base. Now, if we were to take a look at this back side of the panel here, through the systems approach, you can control a number of different avenues of this entire elevation. If you wanted to, you could control the different seams, you could change your joint or your gap here, you can go through and add any types of holes or openings. I'll reactivate the tool here. You can add openings about two points, which is great for things such as doors. So if I come to my panel that I have here, you can drop in things such as a door. Obviously, I wouldn't want that because it's right through my embed there, but let me add it to the one right next to it. So modifying the boundary shapes, you can also do if you have any slopes or tapers, anything like that. So if I just enter back into this tool about two points, I can just drop in things such as a double door, a man door, a dock door. And then also, if I do about a rectangle I can do, I can also do a polygon or a circle as well. So if I did a rectangle, you can just click one point and then click another point, then that hole is dropped in there. You can also click and drag these holes to move them wherever you want. And you can access them via this nice annotation within the model to control the different opening sizes. So now with our openings in there, let's take a look at a couple of our reinforcing tools that we have. So the first and foremost I'm going to show is our kind of trim and edge bar tool. So if I activate the tool, and what I'm actually going to do here is I'm going to isolate this panel. So show only selected. And then now I'm going to activate my trim steel, click on this width and click on the back width. And you'll see if I go to a see-through view here, Tecla's placing all of our edge bars. It's also placing bars around all of our openings, our diagonals and trim bars, as well as on the bottom side too. Now, the nice thing about Tecla structures being that all of our tools are parametric, I can just grab this hole and I can move it wherever I want and the reinforcing all updates on the fly for me. I don't have to worry about remodeling things, relaying things out, reapplying tools. Everything like that is done for me on the fly. The next tool that I'll showcase is basically our main wall panel reinforcing tool. So activate the tool, click on the back width and then I can click on this front width. Now this is doing all of our long steel whether it be strand or mild steel along with all of our mesh. I can double select on the tool. That will open a nice 2D dialog box here for the wall panel reinforcing where you can basically cycle through, specify your strand template, your pattern, your pole, your grade if you want long steel, mesh, stirrups and so on. Okay, let's close out of here, redraw our view. Delete out this clip plane. Okay, let's just apply a couple more custom components before we get to detailing here. So starting off with our double Ts to inverted T beam. So if I activate this tool, I can basically select my beam, my left T, right T, middle mouse. What this is going to do, it's going to place our top plate for us, place the plates in there and then it's also going to dap out our bottom side and place our bearing plates on both ends of the double T. Now what's really nice here is you see this side of our double Ts was already detailed out. It already had the reinforcing and everything in there. By placing this component, it made the cuts, the reinforcing components knew that they had to auto update and everything was adjusted on the fly. So again, to showcase some of that speed, we can click on our beam, left, right, middle mouse and Tekla will plop that in. Again, this left side is fully detailed out so it is not only placing all those cuts and components and plates and following all the planes, but then it's also updating all the reinforcing in there as well. Next, I wanted to showcase a similar tool, but on the load bearing spandrel side. So if we just find that tool, spandrel, we can click on our spandrel and then click on our double T. You'll see the same thing popping in there. I'm just going to quickly click on a couple of these. But here you can see it's doing the same. It's placing our top stabilizer plate, all the loose erection hardware that we would need. It's doing the same where it's dapping our bottom of our double Ts and placing in all the bearing plates accordingly. And if you're curious, this green triangle just means that there's a component there. We can just redraw the view and those component symbols go away. All right, what we're going to do next is add a couple of lifters here to our beams and then I'm going to add a few lifters for our wall panels and then we're going to detail out some reinforcing for some of these other members. So starting off, I'm going to apply our lifting anchor tool and with just a single click we can place lifters about the center of gravity for our beams. Next, I'm going to create a nice clip plane again, push through my building section and I'm going to showcase one of our newest tools that we have. It's called lifting inserts. This is a new tool that will lift about center of gravity as well, but it can be more universally utilized across all of your precast products, whether it be double Ts, whether it be utility products, wall panels, you name it. So basically how this tool works is similar where you single click on the tool and then activate it, click on whatever face it is that you're wanting to apply. And these lifters are all parametric in the sense that you can see how it's applying the lifters differently with the panel with the openings versus the non openings because obviously the center of gravity is different so it's placing them accordingly. This tool is also parametric in the sense that if you make any adjustments to any of the shape or height, width, anything like that, these lifters will all automatically update. And they are of course doing about center of gravity. If I double select on the tool, we can open up the 2D dialog box here. You get the option to choose the component for the lifter in which you want to utilize, which face it's being applied on. So another nice feature is you can actually apply this tool on your top or your jams or on your bottom, anything like that can be applied. You can choose whether you're lifting about the entire assembly or whether just individual parts. And then you can obviously choose where you're placing about the center of gravity. And then if you need any offsets and whatnot, you can obviously offset every lifter. And then if you want to turn certain ones on or off, you can do that as well. All right. So now with this model mostly detailed out, we're going to go through and model some reinforcement. So we're just going to pick a couple here. I'm going to start off with the column tool and single select on our columns here. Now I'm just going to do these three here because these three do have the most going on with the different pockets for support and whatnot. So you can see if I actually go to a see-through view here, Tekla's going to intelligently scan this piece, realize the geometry changes for the spandrel support and properly apply the long steel along with the ties. To kind of follow suit here, we can enter into this tool where you can set up all of your different strand properties, your ties, your tie spacing, any secondary reinforcing. And of course this tool also works with circular columns. And again, like I mentioned earlier, all of our tools you can save away different presets for different clients or different standard reinforcement schedules and whatnot. So we already looked at an inverted, sorry, we already looked at a double T. Let's now take a look at our inverted T-beam. So we'll just load open the inverted T-beam reinforcement, single click. Oops, accidentally clicked on the double T. Single click on the inverted T-beam. I'll just drop it into a couple here to showcase that speed. Go from the underside. Okay. So let's segment away one of these guys, show only. Again, similar tool. Tekla is scanning the parameters, the boundary extents of the inverted T-beam and placing the reinforcing accordingly. It's placing all of your ledge steel, your stirrups, your long steel. It's even placing some U bars at the ends of your beam as well. Really quick, we'll enter into this tool as well. You have a very similar 2D dialog where you can set up all of your different strand profiles, long steel mesh, your stirrups, spacing zones, everything like that, all via a nice 2D dialog box. Okay. I'll redraw the view. Next, let's just do a couple of spandrels. So with our tool 55, it's nice. We have our non-load bearing spandrels in yellow and then our load bearing spandrels in blue, but I can utilize the same tool. So I can just single click on all of these spandrels here. You can see how fast all the reinforcing is being plopped in, but now I can leave the same tool activated and apply it to our non-load bearing spandrels. And because of that level of intelligence that Tekla has, it's scanning the piece and applying the appropriate reinforcing. So if we take a look at the differences here, I can actually highlight both of these, show only selected. You can see Tekla is scanning the piece and you can see Tekla is intelligently placing bars in the ledge as we would hope. And then as you can see here, Tekla obviously has not applied those bars. So utilizing the same tool both with that single click interaction, we can detail and reinforce our spandrels very quickly. All right. So now with a good majority of our pieces detailed, connected, reinforced, let's go ahead and generate some drawings. So to do that, what we're going to do is we're going to come up to the top, to our drawings and reports tab, and we are going to load open some cast unit drawings. So Tekla, really quickly before I get into that, Tekla has really three main drawing types that you're going to create in the precast industry. We have your cast unit drawings. That's going to be your production tickets you're sending out to the plant. We have our GA drawings, which stands for general arrangement. These are typically your large arc C, arc D drawing sheets that you're sending out for approval, which would include plan views, elevation, section cuts, and whatnot. And then we also have the assembly drawings, which are typically your embeds, lifters, parts and pieces like that, that you would send out to a hardware manufacturer or if you produce your own. So those are kind of the three types of drawings that we'll focus on. So starting off with the cast unit drawings, basically just load in whatever preset it is that you're wanting to utilize. So I'm going to select the column and then I'm going to go here to my column and then right click on it and say, create drawings, cast unit drawings. Now Tekla is going to ask me, hey, you need to perform the numbering. And really quick before I do that process, let's actually just talk about numbering. Tekla has a feature obviously called numbering, where it's going to go through and number the entire model. Every precast element, every reinforcing bar, every lifter, literally everything in the model is going to get a number based upon the settings that you apply on the part level along with this numbering setup that you have here. So there's no need to figure out if pieces are similar or if they're different. Tekla is going to take care of all that for you. You can choose how picky Tekla is going to be with different tolerances and toggle switches to turn things on or off. You can also choose how it's going to order the numbering if you want to work your way up in levels and whatnot, all via the position sort order down here. But the important takeaway here is that the numbering process is extremely accurate and extremely fast. So if we come up here, whoops, I just deleted my column. If we go to our column and we go back to that create drawings, caching a drawing, and say perform numbering, we can see in just a few seconds Tekla will number the entire model, give everything a unique identifier, and then generate that drawing for us. And just like that, in those few seconds Tekla created the drawing and numbered the entire model. Here's the drawing which it created. It created a CX 102. Let's open it up. Now one of the big points that we wanted to stress today was speed. You can see just how fast Tekla not only numbered the model, created that drawing, but then also just accessing your drawings. Everything is literally at your fingertips when it comes to speed and performance here. So something that we've been working hard on this last probably year or so is automating the production drawing process. So everything that you see here has been created with Tekla's AI. So Tekla's automatically placing and scaling these views appropriately. It's automatically calling out your embeds, plates, lifters. It's automatically slapping on your strings for you. It's automatically placing your reinforcing bar schedule all per CRSI standards. Obviously everything from your bill material is all populated and parametrically linked to the model. And then all of your concrete properties and project information down in the bottom right. But let's just zoom in a little bit and take a look and see what we have. So starting off with this top view you see you have all of your overalls, all of your cuts. You have nice running dimensions showing you where those spandrel supports are located. Here we have a nice reinforcing view with some rebar callouts. You can always move these around or if they're too much you can just press delete on them and wipe them away. Down here on the bottom you have some section cuts here. So we have a section cut dedicated to strand layout and strand placement, reinforcing views, different shape views. But you can notice everything is called out and dimensioned appropriately. Alright next let's go ahead and create a piece drawing for one of our double Ts. So just to make matters a little interesting here let's add some camber to one of these. Let's see. Let's add six inches of camber here. We also have a numbering button at the top. I can go through and run the numbering just like that in that split second. Type a number in the model. Now I can come up here to my drawing settings, cast unit and then I can now say hey I want to create a double T drawing. So I can come to my double T, press apply okay, right click on my double T and say cast unit drawing. Just like that the drawing was created. Let's take a look. Alright so this was one of the points that I had during the slideshow at the beginning is this piece has camber but obviously when we're doing our production tickets we need that undeformed shape. So Tekla is automatically doing that behind the scenes. As I mentioned a few times during the presentation there's no need to have multiple pieces modeled or copies of pieces on top of one another. Tekla is doing all of that behind the scenes for you. So here's our undeformed double T. You'll see we have more of the same here where we've got our automated build materials, any rebar bend schedules, all of your appropriate views placed appropriately and scaled best to fit the view along with your section cuts down at the bottom. So we've really been pushing hard to automate this process and we've come a long way and I think we're very very close. Most of these drawings are 80-90% of the way there. You just need to go through, sweep, clean up a couple things and then you're off to the races. Next let's go ahead and take a look at a wall panel drawing. So same thing I'm going to load up in the cast unit drawing settings and then load up the vertical wall. Press apply okay. Now I'm just going to grab this wall that has some openings and what not that we've kind of detailed out. Go ahead and say create drawings, cast unit drawing. And just like that, the drawing is created. It created this W4. Let's open it up and take a look. Okay, here we are in the wall drawing W4. Take a quick look again. We've got more of the same. Tekla automatically generating those views for us, scaling them appropriately, build materials, project properties. Let's just take a quick look at this top view and see everything that you're getting via Tekla's AI. You're getting all of your overalls. You're getting your opening size, any shape dimensions for any corbels, haunches, things like that. Tekla's automatically calling out and throwing your dimension strings on there for your mini Vs and automatically calling out and labeling and everything that you need for your dog bones as well. Having a mesh call out there. This ticket is pretty well underway. You've got a kind of side view here if you need it and then also a reinforcing view over here showcasing all of your rebar spacings. Let's jump back into the model here. We're running a little close on time so what we're going to do now is just showcase for a few minutes Trimble Connect and then we're going to jump into questions and answers. So for now let's head on over to the Trimble Connect model. All right, here we are within the Trimble Connect model. As you can see here I'm actually running this in the Google Chrome web browser. You can see just how fast and responsive this is. You have all of this data right here at your fingertips. You can see everything that we've been modeling throughout our webinar today. I can click and inquire upon any of these pieces and I have all of that data that's living within the model right here. I can see heights, weights, lengths, volumes. Everything is right here for us to consume as we need. If we just kind of run through the interface here we can do things such as point to point, getting those dimension strings that we need, creating clip planes. I can clip plane in and out as you can within the Tecla Structures model. Another very popular feature is adding to-do's. So like we mentioned during the slides, let's say this column has a chip or a spall or something, the QC manager spots it, opens up the Trimble Connect model, creates a to-do, attaches all of his pictures from his either tablet or phone, and then assigns the appropriate person to rectify the repair. All of that data, all of those pictures, all of that coordination can all happen within Trimble Connect and everything can be stored in one central location. You can create different views of the models. Let's say you have an upcoming kickoff meeting or maybe you have some RFIs you want to get out to the architect or engineer of record. You can create a bunch of standard views so that way when you get on that call with them you can just kind of step through those views. Next we have adding markups here. This is great for just adding quick clouds or something that you need to coordinate more on. You can also free draw. So if there was maybe a hole or something needed to be placed here, you can do all that. And what's nice is these stick to their 3D respected planes. You have all of your standard views here so you can just kind of switch amongst these as you need. Let's see. As far as attaching documents and everything goes, you can obviously do that. You can store any of your documents within the Trimble Connect model. You can store your general arrangement drawings that you're sending out for approval, your IFC prints, your production prints. All of that data can all be housed within the Trimble Connect model. All right. There's obviously a ton more that I would like to showcase when it comes to Trimble Connect and all of its functionalities and features. But unfortunately we are running a little tight for time. So feel free to visit our website to check out more on Trimble Connect. But I think that's going to wrap it up for my presentation today. I just want to thank everyone for their time and attention. Feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions. But for now, thank you very much. And I'll turn it back over to PCI.

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