Welcome to this tutorial.
In this tutorial, you will first learn
about printing drawings in Tekla Structures in general.
Then, you will learn how to print
general arrangement drawings as PDF files.
In Tekla Structures, you can print drawings as PDF files,
save them as plot files for printing with a printer or a plotter,
or print them on a selected printer.
Tekla Structures provides a real-time preview of drawings
in the Print Drawings dialog box.
Let's look at some printing options.
Open the Document manager.
Select a drawing.
Right-click, and select Print.
You can also use the shortcut, and press the Shift key together
with the P key.
Click this area to show a preview of the drawing to be printed.
This is where you define
how the drawing will be printed as a PDF,
to a printer or to a plot file.
When you are printing to a printer,
you can select the printer device here.
You can define the Scale,
and Center the drawing on the paper.
You can choose the Paper size and Orientation here,
and define whether the drawing is printed in Color,
Black and white, or as Grayscale.
When you select the Plot file option,
the drawings are converted to print files
in a format suitable for the selected printer
and saved in a specified location.
Let’s print all the general arrangement drawings as PDF files.
Open the Document manager.
Sort the drawings by their Mark.
Select all the general arrangement drawings.
Right-click, and select Print.
Click to show the previews of the drawings.
Check that the information
you are going to print looks the way you want.
Click next to see the next drawing.
Ensure you have Fit to paper selected.
Choose to print the drawings in Color.
Click Print.
The drawings are now printed.
Let’s have a look at them.
Open the model folder.
Browse to the plot files folder, where the drawings are located.
Double-click a drawing to view it.
You can view the drawings using any PDF viewer.
Pause here to practice what you just learned.
You have now reached the end of this tutorial.
In this tutorial, you learned generally about printing drawings
in Tekla Structures.
You have also learned
how to print general arrangement drawings as PDF files.