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Drawings Session

Chris Keyack

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Cloning & Intelligent Drawings

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Reset Main Part on Assembly

Use This When Copy Rotate Stairs (UseLater In Cloning)

Use when do welds incorrect picking order Pick Part, then Right Click Menu

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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!

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Preview Images for other Model

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Drawing Wizard/Cloning Wizard

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Define Which Views Get Cloned

So when you areintelligently Cloning ifyou want some views

to have dimensionscreated and notcloned.

Or You dont want

dimensions cloned orautomatically created Release Notes Cover

Explanations

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Move or Edit Automatically Switches to Fixed

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Fixed Views

Prevent Viewsfrom Moving

during Arrange

Drawing Views or

modification of

Drawing Layout

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Other Items On Drawings

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Using 0 Diameter Bolts To Get

Dimension Points

Stair Stringer Example

Dimensions For Cuts Suggest Wrapping into CustomComponent Details So they can be

picked and moved, deleted

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Using 0 Diameter Bolts To Get Dimension Points

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Using 0 Diameter Bolts To Get Dimension Points

Embed 1060

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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.

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Save Part Mark To StandardWhen Adding if you Donthave 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 elementswill be correct.

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Associative Notes

Great for putting START_Z and END_Zon end of beams like sloped beams

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Dim X and Y

Quickly adddimension forintermediateframing steelto the nearestGridline onEplans

Select Parts Right Click Dimension

Parts XY

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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 bealigned basedon thosepicking points

BEFORE

AFTER

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Cloning Erection Drawings

Came Out in 13.1 See Release Notes for more info

Clone Similar Floor Plans from onelevel to the next