Drawing Tips - Moving Views and Multidrawing Planning

This month we take a quick look at some drawing functionality you may not have been aware of, and a tip to help you plan out and organize your multidrawings better.

[@KarlHeinzofWpg]

oh wow. You know how many times I've moved views 'one by one' across GAs. haha Every time I mumble to myself "Why can't Tekla figure out a way where I can do these all at once". Great tip!

[@EflavioCalavort]

Thank you much mr for this tips. Have a blessed day.

[@victorstrembitskiy7171]

Hello Dave, thaks again for your great videos. When you make a section and then moves sectionview to another sheet a reference mark appears next to the section symbol, so it shows user on which sheet this section view is located. How can I edit this reference mark (letter font, color etc)? A can I edit it at all?

[@johncarlojcmq]

great drawing tips.. Just want to ask how can i create drawings for my assembly and other drawings for my cutting list. cutting list consist of materials with profile that need to cut by the material preparation. Assembly drawing where they can look for assembly of all parts. Thanks.

[@TrimbleTeklaDave]

You can visit teklastructures.support.tekla.com/elearning/steel-detailers and review the drawing creation sections.

[@victorstrembitskiy7171]

Hello, is it possible to get user-parameter from inside a component into a template? With other words, I need to show in a specification some values of a custom component. This custom component is a seem-type component that builds up complete truss assembly, this truss assembly must be shown in a trusses specification, and in that specification I need to show some user-defined values that I put via component window.

[@TeklaSoftware]

Please reach out to your local Tekla helpdesk support team: www.tekla.com/contact/offices-and-resellers.

[@user-lv6ec4qb8r]

thank you

[@lakanamharish305]

How to make a selection filter for only modifies objects like having (?) objects for numbering

[@TrimbleTeklaDave]

I have never had to do this, but I found this on the Tekla User Assistance: teklastructures.support.tekla.com/en/support-articles/how-find-and-select-unnumbered-parts

[@sergeik7555]

Hey David! Tekla doesn't let me change drawing size by manually, I can only choose what it offers. Can you help me with this issue?

[@sergeik7555]

I use Tekla 2020

[@TrimbleTeklaDave]

@@sergeik7555 The way drawing sizes and layouts are handled changed. See this video: th-cam.com/video/VWtVeZxd6DA/w-d-xo.html

[@sergeik7555]

@@TrimbleTeklaDave thank you!

[@jordanhernadi2157]

The reason for using multi drawing especially for single-parts is to save "paper", so copy with layout is wrong. If pcs is indicated on the the copied layout and number of part changes for some reason you will have to revise the huge multi drawing also. But if you did not copy the layout only the content you have to revise the part list only.

[@TrimbleTeklaDave]

One of the main reasons we promote using the 'with layout' option is so that the detailer can have custom tables/templates included with the single part view. If you only copy views, the text display below the part is rather limited. Regardless it should be the same amount of printed paper in the end - only the multidrawing matters.

[@1979tariq]

Thanx

[@normanstark7367]

Single parts and assembly drawings out of the box settings
The dimension colour is Green how you do change it to black, so it does it automatically when you
Run the drawing process

[@TrimbleTeklaDave]

Well, they still print black, and you control printed line weight through the color of the drawing objects in the print settings. However you can change the drawing properties under the 'part' button. There you can set whatever you want the color to be. Just save the drawing settings when you have it the way you want.

[@normanstark7367]

@@TrimbleTeklaDave thanks for that i sometimes have to print the drawings in colour and the black is easier to see when I am modifying the drawings

[@normanstark7367]

@@TrimbleTeklaDave the drawing properties is that in the advance options you make the change

[@TrimbleTeklaDave]

@@normanstark7367 No, double-click in the drawing background, and then click the 'Part' button, then go to the Appearance tab.

[@normanstark7367]

@@TrimbleTeklaDave I can do that but you have to do it individually for each drawing

[@jordanhernadi2157]

Lets say you have 2 GA drawings E1 and E2 for example and one plan view with section A-A on each sheet. If you move plan view and section A-A from E1 to E2 then you will have two plan views and 2 sections A-A on drawing sheet E2. Now lets move section A-A back to E1 where its originated from and see what happens with section A-A on E2! You may fix this oldster issue #127*** in 2020, did you?

[@TrimbleTeklaDave]

The automatic renaming of section views is still something that could be handled better.

[@jordanhernadi2157]

​@@TrimbleTeklaDave well, I am sure it is not your fault that the section views not being handled well enough :)