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Create foundation drawings

Tekla Structural Designer
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Tekla Structural Designer

Create foundation drawings

Foundation drawings refer to isolated foundation detail drawings and foundation layout drawings. Isolated foundation detail drawings display an individual foundation detail in plan. If necessary, you can also display the detail in cross section and a reinforcement quantity table. As for foundation layout drawings, they display the piling layout and the layout of isolated foundations. If necessary, you can also display isolated foundation details, a reinforcement quatity table, an isolated foundation schedule, and a pile location table.

Create isolated foundation detail drawings

Note:
Before you create a base cap detail drawing, ensure that the current drawing options meet your needs by doing the following:

  1. On the Draw tab, click Settings

    The Model Settings dialog box opens on the Drawings page.

  2. Go to Settings > Isolated Foundation Detail.
  3. Adjust the drawing options on the Content and Isolated Foundation Detail sub pages according to your needs.
  4. Click OK.
  1. Hover the mouse pointer over the base cap or pile cap that you want to detail.
  2. When the desired base cap or pile cap is highlighter, right-click it.
  3. In the context menu, select Generate Detailing Drawing...

    The DXF Export Preferences dialog box opens.

  4. Select the layer configuration and layer style for the drawing.
  5. Set the drawing scale.
  6. If necessary, to adjust the distance between independent lines of text, modify the minimum text block spacing.
  7. Do one of the following:
    • Accept the automatic file name.
    • Clear the Use automatic file name option and name the file yourself.
  8. Click OK.

    The drawing opens in an available DXF application.

    Note: If preferred this drawing variant can be created as a batch, (allowing multiple drawings to be created on a single drawing sheet).

Create foundation layout drawings

  1. Open a 2D scene view displaying the piles, bases or pile caps that you want to include in the drawing.
  2. On the Draw tab, click Foundation Layout.
    Note:

    If the command is not active, ensure that you are in a 2D scene view displayed in 2D.

    The DXF Export Preferences dialog box opens.

  3. Select the layer configuration and layer style for the drawing.
  4. Set the drawing scale.
  5. If necessary, to adjust the distance between independent lines of text, modify the minimum text block spacing.
  6. Do one of the following:
    • Accept the automatic file name.
    • Clear the Use automatic file name option and name the file yourself.
  7. Click OK.

    The drawing opens in an available DXF application.

    Note: If preferred this drawing variant can be created as a batch, (allowing multiple drawings to be created on a single drawing sheet).
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