Documentation
Use this documentation when building your Tekla PowerFab apps.
Getting started
- Tekla PowerFab API Introduction
- Getting started with the Tekla PowerFab API
- Assemblies
- Bill of Materials
- CNC Data
- Connection Management
- Cost Codes
- Cost Types
- Creating a .CS file from an .XSD file
- Department Shifts
- Departments
- Drawings
- Estimates
- Extension
- Extensions: Setup and usage
- Filter Sets
- Firm Addresses
- Firm Contacts
- Firms
- Inspections
- Inventory
- Inventory Location Sweeps
- Inventory Locations
- Labor Rates
- Machines
- Nesting
- Pick Lists
- Production Control
- Projects
- Purchase Orders
- Shop Floor
- Updating Your Extension for New PowerFab Releases
- Work Area Department Schedule Shifts
- Work Area Department Schedules
- Work Area Departments
- Work Areas
- Work Package Department Task Completions
- Work Package Department Tasks
- Work Package Departments
- Work Packages
- Workshop
- Debugging the Tekla PowerFab Open API
Code examples
- Code Example: Make Your Welding or Assembly Robot a Station in Tekla PowerFab
- Code example: Connect Tekla PowerFab database remotely
- Code example: ShopFloorSave
- Code example: Unlocking Enhanced Integration by Creating a Work Order and Nesting Extension for Tekla PowerFab
- Code example: Connect Tekla PowerFab database directly
- Code example: Retrieve and process Cut Lists with the Tekla PowerFab Open API
- Code example: Retrieve project status with cut lists from Tekla PowerFab
- Code example: Retrieve a list of jobs from Tekla PowerFab
- Code example: Extended Tekla PowerFab API Demo Program
- Code example: SaveNest (saving a nest) with Future Remnants
Schemas
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