How to Show Phantom Pourstops in Drawings
Not version-specific
Tekla Structures
Environment
United States (Imperial)
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Plan GA Drawing attribute
The Plan GA drawing attribute by default hides loose phantom parts and part marks. However it does not hide the polybeams (like polybeam pourstops).
Hide Polybeams (Parts and Part Marks)
In order to hide these polybeams, two rows need to be added to the GA Drawing Object Level Settings.
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Control Phantom Bent Plates (Parts and Part Marks)
There are two conditions which are considered; Loose phantom bent plates and Attached phantom bent plates.
Attached
Since Attached phantom bent plates become secondary parts of the assembly, their part visibility is controlled by the Secondary_Parts filter in the GA Drawing Object Level Settings. Their marks are controlled by the GA - Part Mark Properties, Content > Secondary part elements in mark. By default secondary parts and part marks are not shown.
If you want to change the visibility of Attached phantom bent plates, then change the Settings used value to Exact or Partial Profiles for the Phantom Bent Plate - Attached filter in the GA Drawing Object Level Settings dialog.
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Loose
As mentioned above, Loose phantom parts and part marks are hidden by default. In all situations the Part Mark will remain hidden.
If you want to change the visibility of Loose phantom bent plates, then change the Settings used value to Exact or Partial Profiles for the Phantom Bent Plate - Loose filter in the GA Drawing Object Level Settings dialog.
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Assembly Mark & Profile "magic"
Both the polybeams and the phantom bent plates are now set to hide their part marks. The polybeam part marks have been set to hidden because they are located along or next to the small polybeam reference line which in many cases is too far from where it is desired. The loose phantom bent plate part marks have been set to hidden because these parts are dummy parts and their marks are different from the actual polybeam that they mimic. In order to get the part marks from the actual polybeams in a desirable location, we have created some Part Mark templates for use in Connection Marks.
In order to turn on the Connection Marks for the Pourstop-Partial custom component (this is used inside the Bent Plate custom component) the following row needs to be added to the GA Drawing Object Level Settings.
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Note! This part mark template contains 5 different rows which output based on the number of characters in the Assembly Mark. It works for 2 characters up to 6 characters. If your Assembly Mark contains more than 6 characters, modify the template in the mark folder named ConxPourstopPartialLoose.tpl.
Object Level Settings Together
Here is what it looks like after all 6 rows have been added/modified in the Plan GA Drawing attribute.
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If you use the out-of-the-box Plan GA Drawing attribute, then instead of adding these 6 rows manually, you can load the Plan+Partial_Pourstops attribute in the GA Drawing Object Level Settings.
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Again, once these 6 rows have been added to your GA drawing, these 2 rows can be use to control the part representation of the phantom bent plates.
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