tekla,strucures,hints,and,tips,working,in,drawings

Under Drawing Properties, Objects, Part, Additional Marks , you can select Orientation Marks "On", and this ( an upside down triangle in a circle) indicates to the Fabricator which side of the beam to mark, and to the Erector on assembly drawing how the beam is then orientated.

Drawing template for hip beam

It's best to use the first one in style 3

For weld sizes in drawings go to

http://xsteeler.net/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=6880

With drawing open click on background to get "assembly drawing properties" click on unclick box, click on weld, change weld size limit, modify, modify. But how do you change all drawings ? I think the way to do this is drawings & reports / drawing settings / assembly drawings / in my case pick style 2 column or beam _exc. parts / click on untick box / weld / untick box / change weld size / apply / apply.

To change size of part mark in a drawing

Click inside drawing, on drawing properties click on un-tick box on bottom right hand of screen, click on part mark. Change size of text. click on assembly position. click modify.

Snapping in drawings

One must be inside both boxes that make up the drawing for snap to work. It's the fifth box from the right that should be un-ticked.

METL-CON

When using the vertical G140 part use con11. picking order is G140, column then a point on the column face vertical against the main leg where you want the cleat which you can change say to a 70x5 flat. This connection must be done the long leg of the G140 on the centre of column. And then move the whole assembly over to as close to centre as poss. Std purlin macro for above is con 28

FILTERING

Click on screen of 3D view FILTER OPTION appears tick first box part, profile, Equals METL* MODIFY. DO MATERIAL LIST UNCLICK BOX MODIFY.

How not to alter the main part?

When I make a copy of a assembly they should be equal, but after the copy the main part changes automatically, causing my copied assembly receives different number.
Is there any setting to keep my main piece when I make copies?

by chuckles333 » Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:35 am

I've had this happen to me too. I find if you create a dummy just like the original and delete the original and copy the dummy into all of the locations (including the original location) you "should" get all of the same part marks

To alter view depth in a GA drawing

Click on actual view border and the view properties come up with up and down dimension of view. standard is_{+ & - 500 mm}

Changing part nos

From the forum

In our assembly marks we use an assembly prefix of X for everything. We then have tekla construct the part mark using the position number + the user defined attribute "USER_FIELD_1" + the number one. In the part user defined attribute "user field 1" we put B for beam, C for column, D for diagonal etc. The column marks will look something like 100C1, 101C1 etc. Beam marks will look like 102B1, 103B1. You get the picture. Using X for the assembly prefix for everything prevents tekla from having a column 100C1 and a beam 100B1, which is what would happen if you were to use B or C in the assembly prefix. This would not work for us because we use separate drawings for every piece and you would need two drawings 100, one for 100C1 and one for 100B1. There will only be one X100 and the UDA will decide if it's to be 100B1 or 100C1. Many objects in Tekla have UDAs. You get to them like (UDAs) this.

Upside down drawings

This really annoys me sometimes but thanks to the Tekla forum (link below) drawing properties / View / Attributes / Co-ordinate System Change from local to Model. Also, there are other variables to play about with.

http://xsteeler.net/viewforum.php?f=37

Tekla told me this was to do with the way the beams are inserted and one should always beams from bottom left hand corner up and to the right. But what happens when one does mirroring? One wonders why Tekla couldn't have told me about the above method of correcting the drawing. The dead giveaway is the mark symbol showing up under the assembly. Maybe you can set the co ordinate system from local to model for all your templates then save them to your customized files? Why isn't it set that way in the first place?

To print a dia. symbol

press alt + 0216

Welded tread flights

I thought I could do these with each stringer as a sub-assembly assembly but no, it wouldn't work so I had to do one stringer and all treads as the main assembly and and the other stringer as the sub assembly. Watch out for the explode not working because of welds.

Creating Drawings

When using phases ie existing parts not included in drawings. Click parts in phase one then create drawings not "create drawings from all"

Importing a dwg. file

in model mode. set ucs origin to bottom left hand side of view

Dimensions Types

Drawing properties / left hand side dimensions / general / straight there are eight types to pick from.

Leader lines in mark nos.

Leader on mark no. goes to corner of part. try view properties / attributes 1 / click define as parts / modify. or Part mark properties / general / place / in placing / select fixed. Or TOOLS / advanced options XS_CHANGED_DRAGGED_MARKS_TO_FIXED = TRUE

Re-number GA drawings

Tools/customize/re-number GA drawings. ie GA (1) GA (2) GA (4) Then GA (4) Becomes GA (3)

Cranked stringers drawings

Always use the long leg as the main part in the assembly. Tekla always automatically creates the main drawing view for the main part with the start handle (yellow) on the left with the end handle to the right.

Hidden lines in drawings

Open drawing properties, objects / parts, put a click in the boxes against hidden lines and centre lines, modify. The modifies the whole drawing. If you select a part only that part only will change.

To insert profile name rather than part mark

click on open drawing / drawing properties/part mark in mid column have "elements in mark" and "profile" only inserted then click on apply and modify.

Tekla Structures Logo in drawing title box

To not to use this and put in customers name. Double click on it, ignore warning, add single line text(s), save as say company 1. When you want to use this again go project properties / advanced and pick company number. You can also use .jpeg and .giffs the should be put in the same folder as where metsecs and steadmans are.

Part mark size and leader

To change size of part marks in drawing. Go to drawing properties de-click all boxes by clicking the ticked box on bottom right hand of the screen. Go to part marks click on assembly position change height on right hand side and click on modify. This also works if you want to remove leader line from all part marks and have the part mark run along the side of the part mark. For part mark insertion centre column should have Elements in Mark and <<assembly position>> only in it.

Arrows in drawings

Using line with arrows in drawing. Make sure all snaps are on except "snap to extension lines" this is the fifth from the right hand side. I think this this a general rule for working with drawings where as when working with models all should be on but the 3rd 4th & 5th from right hand side. Well this is what I've been told anyway. Also note that one can change the end which has the arrow via the arrow property box.