Purpose of "headless" and question about TeklaStructuresService.Initalize

[olszewski-grzegorz]

Hi,

What's the main purpose of HeadlessExample? Is it for starting Tekla from other program? How is this different than opening .exe with bypass.ini configuration file?

I have also a question about fourth argument in TeklaStructuresService.Initalize method. There is a string for a license type. "Viewer", "Drafter" works; what about other types of licenses? I could not find correct phrases.

Thanks for your time :)

[RistoKunnas]

With headless ts, you can embed the ts functionality into your own executable. For example, you can create simple console application to extract information from the model, without teklastructures.exe running.

The license types are the same as here: https://teklastructures.support.tekla.com/2018/en/xs_default_license

[olszewski-grzegorz]

Thanks for response. I am trying to open with "CONSTRUCTION_MODELING" and the result is:

It seems that it tries to open with developer license (I don't have that).

Phrase from code:
service.Initialize( new DirectoryInfo(@"C:\TeklaStructuresModels\Test_2018"), new FileInfo(@"E:\Programy\Tekla\2018\2018\Environments\norway\env_Norway.ini"), new FileInfo(@"E:\Programy\Tekla\2018\2018\Environments\norway\role_All.ini"), "CONSTRUCTION_MODELING");

[hholder]

@Gregi08 I had the same problem. Use the HeadlessExample.ini file to configure the service instead. I added the following lines:
set XS_DEFAULT_ENVIRONMENT=C:\TeklaStructures...\env_US_imperial.ini
set XS_DEFAULT_ROLE=C:\TeklaStructures...\Role_Steel_Detailing.ini
set XS_DEFAULT_LICENSE=CONSTRUCTION_MODELING

[olszewski-grzegorz]

Your solution works - thanks. Now I see what's the idea behind "Headless" mode :)

[martin9020]

Is the idea only to "extract" data from the .db files , or we can modify directly as well?