Drawings Session Chris Keyack
Cloning & Intelligent Drawings
Reset Main Part on Assembly Use This When Copy Rotate Stairs (Use Later In Cloning) Use when do welds incorrect picking order Pick Part, then Right Click Menu
Cloning From Other Models (14.0) We are going to Clone a Stair at different Rise Dimensions Rotated 180 degrees But same stringer is set to main part!
Preview Images for other Model
Drawing Wizard/Cloning Wizard
Define Which Views Get Cloned So when you are intelligently Cloning if you want some views to have dimensions created and not cloned. Or You don’t want dimensions cloned or automatically created Release Notes Cover Explanations
Move or Edit Automatically Switches to Fixed
Fixed Views Prevent Views from Moving during Arrange Drawing Views or modification of Drawing Layout
Other Items On Drawings
Using 0 Diameter Bolts To Get Dimension Points Stair Stringer Example Dimensions For Cuts Suggest Wrapping into Custom Component Details So they can be picked and moved, deleted
Using 0 Diameter Bolts To Get Dimension Points
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Part Marks Set to “None” Start With This Then you select Part(s), right click, and choose “Part Mark” and you get the marks you want.
Save Part Mark To Standard When Adding if you Don’t have a “standard” saved away, Tekla uses default values. So select an item in the “Elements in mark” list that is correct, and save as “standard”, then any newly added elements will be correct.
Associative Notes Great for putting START_Z and END_Z on end of beams like sloped beams
Dim X and Y Quickly add dimension for intermediate framing steel to the nearest Gridline on Eplans Select Parts Right Click Dimension Parts XY
Align Views Vertically and Horizontally Select View Right Click > Align View … Pick a point in originating view Pick a point in view to align to Views will be aligned based on those picking points BEFORE AFTER
Cloning Erection Drawings Came Out in 13.1 See Release Notes for more info Clone Similar Floor Plans from one level to the next