Drawings SessionChris 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

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 StandardWhen 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