Welcome to this tutorial.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to set view properties,
and how to change the visibility of objects
and components in the model.
This is the View Properties dialog box.
You can open it from the ribbon or by double-clicking a view window.
It is important to give unique names to all views in your project,
because Tekla Structures does not save unnamed views
when you exit the model.
Projection of a view can be orthogonal or perspective.
It is recommended that you use
orthogonal projection on everyday work.
The view depth can be used,
for example, to only show one floor at a time.
Finally, display settings are used to filter what is shown on the view.
You can modify the model view properties
to include or exclude certain objects,
as well as adjust the accuracy
of how things are displayed.
Let’s modify the display properties.
In the model 3D view,
double click in the view background to open the View Properties.
Click the Display button.
The Display dialog has two columns of checkboxes,
one for the parts in the model,
and one for the parts inside components.
Using the checkboxes,
you can turn the Visibility of objects on or off,
depending on the object hierarchy.
Uncheck the boxes for bolts under the In components column.
Click Modify to see the result.
The bolts disappear from the view, because they are in a component.
Using the view display properties,
you can speed up the view regeneration,
especially when the model gets larger and more complex.
Within the Display dialog,
there are list-boxes that offer options
on how precisely objects are displayed.
You can select to show parts as Fast to speed things up
or set them to Exact which looks better visually.
You can modify the visibility of object types
also from the direct modification toolbar.
Click the Eye-icon.
Adjust the visibility by clicking
the Eye icons next to the object types.
The column on the right is for objects in components,
and the column on the left is for objects in the model.
Pause here to practice what you just learned.
You have now reached the end of this tutorial.
In this tutorial, you learned how to work with view properties
and how to change the visibility of objects in the model.