Drawings Session Chris Keyack

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Drawings SessionChris Keyack
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• Cloning Intelligent Drawings

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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

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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 are intelligently Cloning if you want
  some views to have dimensions created and not
  cloned.
• Or You dont want dimensions cloned or
  automatically created
• Release Notes Cover Explanations

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Move or Edit Automatically Switches to Fixed
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Fixed Views

• Prevent Views from 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 Custom Component 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
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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 Standard
When Adding if you Dont 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.
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Associative Notes

• Great for putting START_Z and END_Z on end of
  beams like sloped beams

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Dim X and Y

• Quickly add dimension for intermediate framing
  steel to the nearest Gridline on Eplans
• Select Parts
• Right Click
• Dimension Parts XY

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Align Views Vertically and Horizontally

• Select View
• Right Click gt 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
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Cloning Erection Drawings

• Came Out in 13.1
• See Release Notes for more info
• Clone Similar Floor Plans from one level to the
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