The way Tekla Structures handles manually added empty marks and associative notes has been improved.

With the new advanced option, XS_SHOW_EMPTY_MARKS, the handling of the empty marks and notes is easier and faster.

If you set XS_SHOW_EMPTY_MARKS to TRUE:

• Tekla Structures creates the marks or notes that have no content with the "Content not defined" text and shows the following status bar message:

  "Marks without content have been created. Use XS_SHOW_EMPTY_MARKS to control this."

• You can then double-click the mark or note and add the content in the property pane.

If you set XS_SHOW_EMPTY_MARKS to FALSE:

• Tekla Structures creates the marks that have no content and selects these empty marks in the drawing. The following status bar message will be shown when these invisible marks without content have been created:

  "Invisible marks without content have been created – Add elements to mark content and click Modify."

• If marks of only one mark type without content have been created, the property pane opens immediately indicating in the visual editor that the content is not defined, and you can add the desired content.

  

• If marks of two or more mark types without content have been created:
  • Property pane opens, and there is an exclamation mark next to the object type list arrow button indicating that the list contains mark types with empty marks.
  • The property pane keeps all marks with empty content visible in the object type list so that you can select each mark type and add mark content if desired. You can also leave the marks with no content, or delete them.

This user-specific advanced option is located in the Drawing properties category in the Advanced options dialog.

This improvement was already introduced in Tekla Structures 2023 SP5.