Park Engineering

John Park, 32 the Loaning, Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Strathclyde, Scotland, U.K. ML1 3HE
tel. 01698 263756 mobile 0781 8618547
"e" mail jpark8@btinternet.com (click on this to send me an "e" mail)
this web site www.3d-cad-steelwork.com

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Tekla Structures hints and tips working in drawings & reports.

Mark nos. & profile
I've just discovered that you can put mark number of part plus the profile in a GA drawing. Will save some time in the future.

QUANTITY IN Each phase ON DRAWING see below

The job I had to use this on was Arc steel. the job no was Arc.01 Sriram gave me 2 new templates which I put in my model folder.
These worked to an extent in that it gave me listed quantities for phase 1 and an overall quantity for phase 1 and 2. The
templates are kept at the following address "C"/ Tekla Structures / V17 / Environments / UK / Template. These appear to be
editable with the Template Editor. In the drawing F1 the top right hand box is STYLE2-SINGLE-IN-ASSEMBLY.tpl and the total
quantity box is STYLE2-SINGLE-CALL-OFF.tpl These should be able to be adjusted to suit exact requirements. The only difference I
can see is that Phase 1 has been added to the top box template ie Total Phase 1. GetValue("Name") is description.
GetValue("Model_Total") Is the quantity. GetValue("Part_Pos") is the mark no. Sum("ValueField_2") Is the qty. at the bottom of
the top table. STYLE3-SINGLE-ATTRIBUTES.tpl Is supposed to be a phase qty. table but I couldn't get it to work. At last I've come
across a simple phase Table Phase PH
Qty QT Phase & Qty are Text PH = GetValue("Phase"), don't sum values, Ascending.
NU = GetValue("Number"), Sum values within row, Ascending. The name of the table template is PART-PHASE.tpl and I inserted it
in Style2-Sing - A4 Sheet With a 'y' size of -70

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Frequently
Asked Questions

Hardware and
Software
The above image is .jpeg although It's in colour it is the best one to work with.

adding a table to drawing

Customer
Feedback

Printing
Services

drawings and reports>drawing settings>drawing layout>table layout>pick paper size>tables>in centre box pick Style2-Phase.tlp
using arrow add to drawing layout, update etc

Line Weights -- Pen Numbers

Go to File>Print>printer>printer catalogue , black and white, highlight printer, colour table, black 1, no colour 1, blue 2, red 1,
green 1, yellow 3, mauve 5, magenta 1, dark blue 1, brown 1, mid green 1, orange 6, grey 4, dark green 1. This was supplied by
Sriram. I would have thought the 'black' should have been a higher number that 1 as this is the colour of the part on the drawing.

Cad Tips

Funny Pictures

How does one copy The drawing templates with Logos from V17 to V18.1
This is not an easy question to answer. It all depends on how your Tekla has been set up previously.

Interesting
Stories

By default, the drawing borders reside in the C:\TeklaStructures\18.1\environments\uk\role\Steel_Detailer

The logo resides in the C:\TeklaStructures\18.1\nt\TplEd\bitmaps

Bird Flu Humour

However, if you are using a Firm folder, then these files might be in this location, and you should invoke the Firm folder in your
V18.1.
If your Tekla has not been installed into the C:\TeklaStructures folder, then you could have some fun trying to find these files.

Cheaper Car fuel

They may be in your C:\Program Files\Tekla

Or C:\ProgramData\Tekla

Most
embarrassing
moments

Kit Emery
Support Technician
I found it very easy to change the drawing template by clicking on title box in the drawing and editing company logo. Copy and
paste the logo to give other lines.

130 Year old Joke

Material list
Recommended
Books

The one I normally use is grouped by profile. On the last one I did some of the lengths were to a decimal point. Went to advanced
options, Profiles, XS_DECIMALS_IN_PROFILE_NAME inserted VALUE = 0 And this solved it
To show exact shape of section say PFC in drawing

Jokes by type

Park Family Tree

Right click on part, properties, click on show exact then modify.

Batch produce .dwg files

Kindly supplied by Sriram

Name and Shame

Its best to use print rather than export

set XS_DRAWING_PLOT_FILE_NAME_A=%%DRAWING_NAME.%%DRAWING_REVISION?%%REVISION_MARK%%
set

Tekla Models
Sceenshots

XS_DRAWING_PLOT_FILE_NAME_G=%%G%%(%%DRAWING_NAME.%%)%% r%%DRAWING_REVISION?%%REVISION_MARK%%
set
XS_DRAWING_PLOT_FILE_NAME_W=%%DRAWING_NAME.%%DRAWING_REVISION?%%REVISION_MARK%%

Tekla Custom
Components.htm

Weekly Rants

When you open print drawing windows, select dwf or dwg format. on the right hand side, you can see print to file option is
checked. Down below show the path to export the file and click print. When you use .\Plot it means, it will create a folder in the
name of plot in model folder and export dwg files to this folder. The above doesnt appear to pick up the G in a GA drawing so as
theres normally just a few I do these with export.

Terms &
Conditions

Tekla Structures
Hints & Tips

Stru-cad users who have to swap to tekla may find this page useful I have therefore
inserted the key words 'swap from StruCad to Tekla'

Motherwell
Masters Swim
Club

To set assembly no. to same no. as main part.

go to Tools - options - advanced options - numbering - XS_ASSEMBLY_NUMBER_FOR set value to MAIN_PART and implement. If I
have to use both drawings I save the assembly "A" as say B1 ASSY.pdf

Computer and
Web Design Hints
and tips

British
Hospitals -

Last week a client asked me to remove the BOM from my assembly drawing and without thinking I opened the Bill Of
Material in TplEd and deleted it.
So now the BOM is gone from all my assembly drawings and I want it back !
Assuming that the BOM you have is the same as the deleted one it should be no real problem. Make sure your BOM has the same
name as the deleted one and put it in your template folder as defined in your advanced settings XS_TEMPLATE_DIRECTORY . If it

True
Stories.........
work of the
Bonkle Poet
William
McCormack
"Memories O'
Hame" and
other poems
the poet among
other things Bill
Baron Irvine

doesn't appear in your drawing it might be because your drawing layout no longer has the association to the BOM. If this is the
case then you will need to add it to your UK-Assembly Layout. Drawings & Reports > Drawing Settings > Drawing Layouts and
select your layout select the Table Layout button and then the table layout you use and the Tables button. If you don't see your
BOM listed on the left, you don't have it saved in the correct folder. If you see it move it to the right side. Position it relative to
another template or the drawing frame. You may need to tweak the position to get it to appear in the proper place on you
drawing. Hint: don't close any of the layout dialogues until the template shows up in it's right place. Just hit Apply, Apply, Apply
and open your drawing to see. Make corrections as needed and hit Apply, Apply, Apply and reopen your drawing to see the
corrections. When you're done close out the dialogues and copy the *.lay file to your firm folder.

Sections
System create section at both ends and middle. If any plate falls within the range, it will show the section view. Sometimes we
need to create views if the system does not create. We create sections manually to missing fittings and it is not prone to errors.

To remove "Tekla" from bottom left hand side of drawing

Model Stair
Stringers in Tekla
SET XS_PRODUCT_IDENTIFIER=FALSE IN ADVANCED OPTION/DRAWING VIEW
Forbes Gentleman

Part position, orientation

Robert Burns's
Auld Lang Syne

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.

Tekla Structures
hints and tips
working in
drawings

Drawing template for hip beam

Tekla Advanced
Topics.htm

For weld sizes in drawings see below

Tekla all my
stuff.htm

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.

Tekla Components
my Standard
connections.htm

ARC Steel
Commercials.htm

Calder
Fabrications.htm

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

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 only.

METL-CON
James Cowie &
Co. Ltd.htm

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

Craig
Engineerig.htm
Weldon
Engineerig.htm

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

Anhop
Metalwork.htm

How not to alter the main part?

Coda

When I make a copy of a assembly they should be equal, but after the copy the main part changes automatically, causing my

Fabrications.htm

copied assembly receives different number.

Is there any setting to keep my main piece when I make copies?

Roof Edge.htm

Mansard Roof.htm

Kenny Ball.htm

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

Marti Pellow.htm

To alter view depth in a GA drawing

wilbur,smith

Click on actual view border and the view properties come up with up and down dimension of view. standard is + & - 500 mm
Kathy Kirby.htm

Billy Fury.htm

Petula Clark.htm

The Eagles.htm

Adam Faith.htm

The
Searchers.htm

Bob Dylan.htm

Glasgow
Humour.htm

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.
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

Crosswords, a
century of
fun..htm

Statins
Divide.htm

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.

Cassius Clay.htm

Creating Drawings
Robert
Smillie.htm

Charlie
Landsborough.htm

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

Blackpool.htm

Dimensions Types
Howard
Hughes.htm

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

Leader lines in mark nos.

Tom Clancy.htm
James
Patterson.htm

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

ABBA.htm
Belhaven
Engineering.htm

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

Bismarck.htm
Neil Sedaka.htm
Jim Davidson.htm
Buddy Holly.htm

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.

Martin Luther
King.htm
Charlie Drake.htm
St Vitus'
Dance.htm

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.

The
Temptations.htm
Elvis Presley.htm

To insert profile name rather than part mark

Billy Connolly.htm
Mrs Brown's
Boys.htm
Crooner Kings.htm
Saucy Holiday
Postcards.htm

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

Jim Reeves.htm
Jack the
Ripper.htm

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.

Ken Dodd
Motown
Lionel Richie.htm
Ross Noble.htm
Stan Laurel.htm
Dick Turpin.htm
Chang and Eng
Siamese
Twins.htm
Moby-Dick.htm
Waterloo
Road.htm
Miranda Hart.htm
Kevin Bridges.htm

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.